Suggestions solicited, server bring up

[Ben Scott]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
>> I've heard that the RAID is unstable under older Linux kernels, but that
>> was 3~4 years ago, so I suspect it's been fine for a while now.
>
> yeah, I can confirm this on some of the PERC 3 models.

  The PERC 3 series was the first and last Dell RAID controller to use
an Adaptec chipset.  Now you know why.  It's a horrible chipset.  It's
slow as molasses even when it's working properly.

  Every other PERC before or since has used a variation on the
MegaRAID chipsets made by LSI Logic (formerly AMI).  They're decent,
if unexciting, RAID cards.

-- Ben