[ILUG] Linux & Adaptec 2820SA Raid Card

[FRLinux]

On 11/8/06, Aine Douglas <aine.douglas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone here have experience of this card on linux, and do you
> know if that advanced data protection suite is a hardware thing on the
> card or some f'ing windows app gimmick?

We have a few, they are real nice. Thing I have against it is the fact
that their monitoring software is provided as RPM only (at least the
last time I checked) so my Debian systems weren't too happy about it
(and Alien doesn't cut it since the postinst scripts aren't being
executed). The monitoring on Linux does work on RPM based distros but
I have no experience on it.

The cards themselves do deliver the performances and behave well
(using RAID10 here). We had a couple of dead SATA drives and replacing
them was trivial (we can hot swap them with the units we are using,
SuperMicro cases).

Hope this helps,
Steph