[Madlug] server distro

[Jon Nelson]

I'm pretty sure that's my old motherboard.
The on-board raid is not worthwhile if I recall.
Just use software raid - it works well. That board had 3 or 4 drives
in it performing software raid for several years without so much as a
hiccup.
My guess is that it's "fakeraid" anyway.


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Brian Hagen <byronkeys at inxpress.net> wrote:
>   I have received a motherboard which is optimized for RAID operations.
> Although
> it is not fast by today's levels, the CPU runs fast enough for it to
> configured as a fileserver.
>
>   The board is an ABIT KR7A-RAID with four IDE slots, and I have placed it
> into
> a new ATX minitower chassis and booted it up via  Knoppix-derived utility
> CD.
> I can see from this bootup that the "dmesg" output specifically calls out
> RAID hardware
> functionality.  Since that is the case even without any hard drives added
> (so far,  just a
> DIMM and a CD-ROM drive are installed to ensure that it boots up before I
> spend $$$
> on storage, etc.),  I find this encouraging. Since I want to combine
> learning about RAID
> under Linux with making this system into a dedicated fileserver, does anyone
> recommend
> a distro that is at least optimized for fileservers, and possible supports
> RAID operations?
> Opinions, please ...
>
> Brian H.
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Jon