[Discuss] PCI RAID card for Linux?

[David Bronaugh]

Jim Roepcke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been lurking this list for years but rarely post.  I have a 
> question I hope someone here can answer...
>
> I just bought two 400GB ATA100 7200rpm drives, and I want to use them 
> for a new Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) server I will be setting up on a 512MB 
> RAM / PII-866MHz IBM NetVista box.  I'll be using it for an IMAP mail 
> server and (if I get these drives set up) a file server for my 
> Linux/OSX dev boxes.
>
> Since the old NetVista obviously doesn't have RAID on the motherboard 
> I want to get a PCI card to attach the drives to, and I'm hoping to do 
> RAID mirroring.
>
> Do you have any recommendations for PCI RAID cards (or have a better 
> idea?) that I can confidently use with Linux (and hopefully Dapper 
> Drake)?  Hopefully something that isn't super-expensive, I definitely 
> don't want to be spending hundreds but I honestly have no idea how 
> much these kinds of cards cost.
Don't bother with a RAID card, simply use both onboard IDE channels and 
use Linux software RAID. It'll work fine.

David