On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Richard Harding wrote: > I'm looking at replacing an old P3 server with a new Dell 2850. I want > to setup a raid 5 on it and as I've never setup raid on Linux before I > wanted to see if anyone has had any problems with the 39160 SCSI > controller this box seems to have with debian sarge? I have 2 other > debian machines on the network, but they're small boxes running backup > web/dns/squid services and this machine is my main email/web/spam > filtering box so I really want to beef up the hardware while I have the > chance with this new box. An Adaptec 39160 should work just fine with Linux (including Debian, of course). On the other hand, you're *much* better off buying the hardware RAID controller for that box, and using that, instead of doing software RAID on the 39160. It'll make recovery when a disk dies much cleaner. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------