I've used LSI MegaRAIDs successfully in the following systems with both
Redhat 9 and FC3 64bit.
Arima HDAMA/8GB RAM
Tyan S2850/4GB RAM
Tyan S2881/4GB RAM
I've previously stayed away from Adaptec because we used to run Solaris
x86 and the driver was somewhat buggy. For Linux and FreeBSD, I'd be
less worried as open source development of drivers usually lead to
better testing & bug-fixing.
Stacy White wrote:
> We're in the process of buying another Opteron server to run Postgres, and
> based on the suggestions in this list I've asked our IT director to get an
> LSI MegaRaid controller rather than one of the Adaptecs.
>
> But when we tried to place our order, our vendor (Penguin Computing) advised
> us:
>
> "we find LSI does not work well with 4GB of RAM. Our engineering find that
> LSI card could cause system crashes. One of our customer ... has found that
> Adaptec cards works well on PostGres SQL -- they're using it as a preforce
> server with xfs and post-gress."
>
> Any comments? Suggestions for other RAID controllers?
>
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