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From: mst on 7 Jan 2008 08:14
Hello,

I have tried to find information in serveral hardware howtos but they
are mostly historical.
Have anyone tried to install at and run Linux Debian 4 (etch) on disk
array managed by Intel SRCS16 SATA RAID controller?
I'm not such an experienced linux user to search linux kernel code for
apropriate driver. So tell me is this controller supported on linux
with 2.6 kernel?

More info about the machine I want to buy:
Intel Server Board S5000V
Quad-Core Intel Xeon 1,6GHz
2x 512MB FBDIMM 667
Intel SRCS16 SATA RAID controller
3x WD Cavair 250GB SATA

I want to have RAID5 array on disks created and managed by the
controller.
I want to install Linux Debian 4 with 2.6 kernel on it.
From: Chris Cox on 7 Jan 2008 10:24
mst(a)skrzynka.pl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have tried to find information in serveral hardware howtos but they
> are mostly historical.
> Have anyone tried to install at and run Linux Debian 4 (etch) on disk
> array managed by Intel SRCS16 SATA RAID controller?

I believe that's a rebranded LSI Megaraid. You'll need the megaraid
driver (which comes with Linux).

> I'm not such an experienced linux user to search linux kernel code for
> apropriate driver. So tell me is this controller supported on linux
> with 2.6 kernel?
>
> More info about the machine I want to buy:
> Intel Server Board S5000V
> Quad-Core Intel Xeon 1,6GHz
> 2x 512MB FBDIMM 667
> Intel SRCS16 SATA RAID controller
> 3x WD Cavair 250GB SATA
>
> I want to have RAID5 array on disks created and managed by the
> controller.
> I want to install Linux Debian 4 with 2.6 kernel on it.

I would think this config would work just fine.

From: Jerry McBride on 7 Jan 2008 10:44
mst(a)skrzynka.pl wrote:

> Intel SRCS16 SATA RAID

Yes, it's fully supported by the megaraid driver...

Instead of coming here, you really should google for what you seek. There's
thousands of hits on this card and linux. Seems over that it works as
advertised except for performance... not a great piece of hardware for the
bucks... Good Luck


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Jerry McBride (jmcbride(a)mail-on.us)
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