[NBLUG/talk] locals: any 3Ware 8600 with Debian experience?

[Kyle Rankin]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:21:52AM -0800, Daniel Smith wrote:
> 
> I've been given the task of getting a rack server
> (SuperMicro P4SCA/P4SCE) going with a 3Ware 8600
> SATA card, to do RAID 1.
> 
> Would like to use straight debian for this, and am
> wondering:
> 
> * 2.4 or 2.6?  Any precompiled 3Ware driver for Debian?
> The 3.0r2 cd boot doesn't see the controller.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Smith          - New York & Sonoma County, CA
> dls @ my name dot org - AIM: SonomaDaniel - daniel.org
> 

If this is a production server, and you possibly can, stay with 2.4 just
because of stability. Others might (and have) disagreed with me on this,
but I think the current 2.6 development model puts it in too much of a flux
for my tastes when talking about production servers.

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