I recently got a BP6 with 2 466MHz Celerons, and want to have raid 1 running on the board. Which IDE RAID Controller do you recommend for 2 * 40GB IDE HDD's to be run in raid 1?
I'm probably going to be using Linux on the machine, so if there was one which was available in the UK and Linux compatible that'd be brilliant!
Thanks!
Which Raid controller?
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Welcome to BP6.Com, FreeWill !
I'm no RAID expert but you should be able to find a good RAID PCI controller from newegg or your favorite Internet shop. The BP6 is going on 6 years of age and you probably won't see great performance using a SATA PCI RAID controller. An ATA/66/100/133 PCI RAID controller from company's like Promise should work fine.
I'm no RAID expert but you should be able to find a good RAID PCI controller from newegg or your favorite Internet shop. The BP6 is going on 6 years of age and you probably won't see great performance using a SATA PCI RAID controller. An ATA/66/100/133 PCI RAID controller from company's like Promise should work fine.
I'd recommend a Promise Fasttrak 66 or 100. See if you can locate a used one. Here's an example.
I got one for about $12 Cdn on Ebay, works great. Recent Linux distros should pick it up just fine on installation. If you need to, there's a guide here on creating a boot floppy for it and installing Linux.
I got one for about $12 Cdn on Ebay, works great. Recent Linux distros should pick it up just fine on installation. If you need to, there's a guide here on creating a boot floppy for it and installing Linux.
BP6, RU BIOS, 2*Celeron 366@550 1.9v
2*GlobalWin FEP32, 512MB PC100 CAS2
GeForce DDR, CMI8738 audio, Accton SMC2-1211TX NIC
Ubuntu Linux, Kernel 2.6.8.1-4-686-smp
2*GlobalWin FEP32, 512MB PC100 CAS2
GeForce DDR, CMI8738 audio, Accton SMC2-1211TX NIC
Ubuntu Linux, Kernel 2.6.8.1-4-686-smp
If you wanted to save yourself some money you could try software raid. It works well and is free
Check out this HOW-TO:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
Hope that helps,
loophole
Check out this HOW-TO:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
Hope that helps,
loophole
Still kicking along with the Abit BP6
I also found this article on Linux Software RAID:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/4349/1
And, Adaptec's white paper on the issue can be found here:
http://graphics.adaptec.com/pdfs/raid_soft_v_hard.pdf
just some more 2cents
loophole
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/4349/1
And, Adaptec's white paper on the issue can be found here:
http://graphics.adaptec.com/pdfs/raid_soft_v_hard.pdf
just some more 2cents
loophole
Still kicking along with the Abit BP6