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My mobo with IDE RAID died...what are my linux compatible options?
Hi all,
My GA-7VRXP rev2.0 motherboard with promise RAID controller is on its way out. I opened up the case to install two new 120GB IDE drives and found that all four of the capacitors around the CPU were leaking. So, I've replaced the board with a cheapo Asus A7S8X-MX board and hooked up one of the original 80GB data drives from the RAID array to get access to my files and the main drive with the OS on it (where I'm typing this from). I've been looking around, and it appears that I'm SOL in terms of finding a new motherboard with IDE RAID (all SATA RAID). There might be one or two, but they won't take either of the Socket A CPUs that I have, so the price doubles right there as I'll have to buy a new CPU as well (seems like a sempron 3100+ is the least expensive option). So, I guess my only other option is to buy an IDE RAID PCI card. Here's where the fun starts. It seems a lot of these only have sketchy linux support. I've never compiled anything, so I'm a bit leary of a lot of these cards. There also seem to be several 'classes' of these cards, in the $50-$100 range (ST-Labs and Adaptec), the $100-$200 range, and the $200-$1000 range. I'm pretty lost as to where to go for a reasonably trouble free PCI IDE RAID card and am hoping that someone here can help me out. TIA, Ari -- spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ |
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"spodosaurus" wrote in message ... Hi all, My GA-7VRXP rev2.0 motherboard with promise RAID controller is on its way out. I opened up the case to install two new 120GB IDE drives and found that all four of the capacitors around the CPU were leaking. So, I've replaced the board with a cheapo Asus A7S8X-MX board and hooked up one of the original 80GB data drives from the RAID array to get access to my files and the main drive with the OS on it (where I'm typing this from). I've been looking around, and it appears that I'm SOL in terms of finding a new motherboard with IDE RAID (all SATA RAID). There might be one or two, but they won't take either of the Socket A CPUs that I have, so the price doubles right there as I'll have to buy a new CPU as well (seems like a sempron 3100+ is the least expensive option). So, I guess my only other option is to buy an IDE RAID PCI card. Here's where the fun starts. It seems a lot of these only have sketchy linux support. I've never compiled anything, so I'm a bit leary of a lot of these cards. There also seem to be several 'classes' of these cards, in the $50-$100 range (ST-Labs and Adaptec), the $100-$200 range, and the $200-$1000 range. I'm pretty lost as to where to go for a reasonably trouble free PCI IDE RAID card and am hoping that someone here can help me out. TIA, Ari Get a card with a Promise chipset. Have you been over to the Suse or Linux.org sites? Suse 9.3 has great support now for hardware raid, especially with Promise chipsets. Hope you have broadband...:-). The Suse 9.3 is a bit bloated and takes over 2gig for complete install with lots of apps. I am waiting for the DVD .img to come out before I get it. Suse 9.2 recognized my onboard Promise and my PCI WD raid card (also a Promise chipset). I just built this system and am not going to install Linux for a while. Just going to wait on the DVD image for Suse 9.3 then I will probably put it on to play around with. I am not a Linux whiz, but like to mess around with it for grins. Ed |
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Ed Medlin wrote:
"spodosaurus" wrote in message ... Hi all, My GA-7VRXP rev2.0 motherboard with promise RAID controller is on its way out. I opened up the case to install two new 120GB IDE drives and found that all four of the capacitors around the CPU were leaking. So, I've replaced the board with a cheapo Asus A7S8X-MX board and hooked up one of the original 80GB data drives from the RAID array to get access to my files and the main drive with the OS on it (where I'm typing this from). I've been looking around, and it appears that I'm SOL in terms of finding a new motherboard with IDE RAID (all SATA RAID). There might be one or two, but they won't take either of the Socket A CPUs that I have, so the price doubles right there as I'll have to buy a new CPU as well (seems like a sempron 3100+ is the least expensive option). So, I guess my only other option is to buy an IDE RAID PCI card. Here's where the fun starts. It seems a lot of these only have sketchy linux support. I've never compiled anything, so I'm a bit leary of a lot of these cards. There also seem to be several 'classes' of these cards, in the $50-$100 range (ST-Labs and Adaptec), the $100-$200 range, and the $200-$1000 range. I'm pretty lost as to where to go for a reasonably trouble free PCI IDE RAID card and am hoping that someone here can help me out. TIA, Ari Get a card with a Promise chipset. Have you been over to the Suse or Linux.org sites? Suse 9.3 has great support now for hardware raid, especially with Promise chipsets. Most of those are still software RAID. The require the drivers to contribute to the process, and this is why Promise are not releasing them as open source. I've recently been emailed back from Promise about their TX2000 card. The cheapest TRUE hardware alternative is a 3Ware card, which is very well supported under linux. Not all promise cards are. Hope you have broadband...:-). The Suse 9.3 is a bit bloated and takes over 2gig for complete install with lots of apps. I use Fedora Core 3, soon to be Fedora Core 4. I'm not going to move for a chipset that may or may not work and will cost me extra. I'm going to attempt getting linux software RAID going, with a similarly flaky (under linux) but very cheap ATA133 PCI controller card. I am waiting for the DVD .img to come out before I get it. Suse 9.2 recognized my onboard Promise and my PCI WD raid card (also a Promise chipset). The chip on my old motherboard was close to that of the promise tx2000, but not quite. Promise themselves advise against using their tx2000 on 2.6 series kernels. I just built this system and am not going to install Linux for a while. Just going to wait on the DVD image for Suse 9.3 then I will probably put it on to play around with. I am not a Linux whiz, but like to mess around with it for grins. Ed -- spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ |
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"spodosaurus" wrote in message ... Ed Medlin wrote: "spodosaurus" wrote in message ... Hi all, My GA-7VRXP rev2.0 motherboard with promise RAID controller is on its way out. I opened up the case to install two new 120GB IDE drives and found that all four of the capacitors around the CPU were leaking. So, I've replaced the board with a cheapo Asus A7S8X-MX board and hooked up one of the original 80GB data drives from the RAID array to get access to my files and the main drive with the OS on it (where I'm typing this from). I've been looking around, and it appears that I'm SOL in terms of finding a new motherboard with IDE RAID (all SATA RAID). There might be one or two, but they won't take either of the Socket A CPUs that I have, so the price doubles right there as I'll have to buy a new CPU as well (seems like a sempron 3100+ is the least expensive option). So, I guess my only other option is to buy an IDE RAID PCI card. Here's where the fun starts. It seems a lot of these only have sketchy linux support. I've never compiled anything, so I'm a bit leary of a lot of these cards. There also seem to be several 'classes' of these cards, in the $50-$100 range (ST-Labs and Adaptec), the $100-$200 range, and the $200-$1000 range. I'm pretty lost as to where to go for a reasonably trouble free PCI IDE RAID card and am hoping that someone here can help me out. TIA, Ari Get a card with a Promise chipset. Have you been over to the Suse or Linux.org sites? Suse 9.3 has great support now for hardware raid, especially with Promise chipsets. Most of those are still software RAID. The require the drivers to contribute to the process, and this is why Promise are not releasing them as open source. I've recently been emailed back from Promise about their TX2000 card. The cheapest TRUE hardware alternative is a 3Ware card, which is very well supported under linux. Not all promise cards are. Hope you have broadband...:-). The Suse 9.3 is a bit bloated and takes over 2gig for complete install with lots of apps. I use Fedora Core 3, soon to be Fedora Core 4. I'm not going to move for a chipset that may or may not work and will cost me extra. I'm going to attempt getting linux software RAID going, with a similarly flaky (under linux) but very cheap ATA133 PCI controller card. I am waiting for the DVD .img to come out before I get it. Suse 9.2 recognized my onboard Promise and my PCI WD raid card (also a Promise chipset). The chip on my old motherboard was close to that of the promise tx2000, but not quite. Promise themselves advise against using their tx2000 on 2.6 series kernels. I just built this system and am not going to install Linux for a while. Just going to wait on the DVD image for Suse 9.3 then I will probably put it on to play around with. I am not a Linux whiz, but like to mess around with it for grins. Ed Thanks for the info. Like I said, I am not a guru on linux but I do enjoy tinkering with it. Anything new I can learn is appreciated........ Ed -- spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ |
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Ed Medlin wrote:
"spodosaurus" wrote in message ... Ed Medlin wrote: "spodosaurus" wrote in message ... Hi all, My GA-7VRXP rev2.0 motherboard with promise RAID controller is on its way out. I opened up the case to install two new 120GB IDE drives and found that all four of the capacitors around the CPU were leaking. So, I've replaced the board with a cheapo Asus A7S8X-MX board and hooked up one of the original 80GB data drives from the RAID array to get access to my files and the main drive with the OS on it (where I'm typing this from). I've been looking around, and it appears that I'm SOL in terms of finding a new motherboard with IDE RAID (all SATA RAID). There might be one or two, but they won't take either of the Socket A CPUs that I have, so the price doubles right there as I'll have to buy a new CPU as well (seems like a sempron 3100+ is the least expensive option). So, I guess my only other option is to buy an IDE RAID PCI card. Here's where the fun starts. It seems a lot of these only have sketchy linux support. I've never compiled anything, so I'm a bit leary of a lot of these cards. There also seem to be several 'classes' of these cards, in the $50-$100 range (ST-Labs and Adaptec), the $100-$200 range, and the $200-$1000 range. I'm pretty lost as to where to go for a reasonably trouble free PCI IDE RAID card and am hoping that someone here can help me out. TIA, Ari Get a card with a Promise chipset. Have you been over to the Suse or Linux.org sites? Suse 9.3 has great support now for hardware raid, especially with Promise chipsets. Most of those are still software RAID. The require the drivers to contribute to the process, and this is why Promise are not releasing them as open source. I've recently been emailed back from Promise about their TX2000 card. The cheapest TRUE hardware alternative is a 3Ware card, which is very well supported under linux. Not all promise cards are. Hope you have broadband...:-). The Suse 9.3 is a bit bloated and takes over 2gig for complete install with lots of apps. I use Fedora Core 3, soon to be Fedora Core 4. I'm not going to move for a chipset that may or may not work and will cost me extra. I'm going to attempt getting linux software RAID going, with a similarly flaky (under linux) but very cheap ATA133 PCI controller card. I am waiting for the DVD .img to come out before I get it. Suse 9.2 recognized my onboard Promise and my PCI WD raid card (also a Promise chipset). The chip on my old motherboard was close to that of the promise tx2000, but not quite. Promise themselves advise against using their tx2000 on 2.6 series kernels. I just built this system and am not going to install Linux for a while. Just going to wait on the DVD image for Suse 9.3 then I will probably put it on to play around with. I am not a Linux whiz, but like to mess around with it for grins. Ed Thanks for the info. Like I said, I am not a guru on linux but I do enjoy tinkering with it. Anything new I can learn is appreciated........ Same here. I learn as I go and expand my range of skills. I've learned a bit about linux and linux RAID options through this predicament. I also have learned a few other things along the way, such as today: I learned how to repair a motherboard with bad capacitors. I also learned that if you're not EXTREMELY careful you can pull out the tube that transverses the six layers of the PCB and connects the capacitor to ONE right layer, thus killing the board (I found this out after 5 of 6 capacitors, with the first five looking professionally replaced). I also learned that, as was suggested by someone on aus.computers.linux, had I just removed the capacitors from their pins and soldered the new ones to the pins it would have looked less professional...but I'd have a working board now! Cheers, Ari -- spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ |
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