IDE RAID’s combination management tool lowers storage management costs with centralized management available in the system, provides run-anywhere flexibility, as well as provides a single interface across IDE RAID storage systems. The IDE RAID Software is simplicity of installation and use. IDE RAID takes the cost and complexity to very low.

IDE RAID are as under:-3ware Escalade IDE RAID controllers : This type of IDE RAID supports 3ware's 5000-series and 6000-series controllers and well been supported. Support for the 7000-series controllers and RAID5 on the 6000-series controllers requires kernel 2.4.5 or 2.2.20 or better. IDE RAID make sure to use a recent firmware for RAID 5, since older firmware revisions Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A, 4-port ATA/100 controller: which supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, and RAID 5. Use the dpt_i2o driver, which is included in recent 2.4.x kernels. Promise Supertrack SX6000, 6-port ATA/100 controller which supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 3, and RAID 5. Use the pti_st driver or the generic i2o drivers. Be sure to set the BIOS on the card for "Other OS" instead of "Linux", and check for firmware updates.

The following ports are involved in IDE RAID are listed as: AST Four Port, Accent Async-4, Anet Multiport-8 (8 port), Bell Technologies HUB6,Boca BB-1004, 1008 (4, 8 port) - no DTR, DSR, and CD, Boca BB-2016 (16 port), Boca IO/AT66 (6 port), Boca IO 2by4 (4 serial / 2 parallel, uses 5 IRQ's), Computone ValuePort (4, 6, 8 port) (AST FourPort compatible), DigiBoard PC/X, PC/Xem, PCI/Xem, EISA/Xem, PCI/Xr (4, 8, 16 port), Comtrol Hostess 550 (4, 8 port), PC-COMM 4-port (4 port), SIIG I/O Expander 4S (4 port, uses 4 IRQ's), STB 4-COM (4 port), Twincom ACI/550, Usenet Serial Board II (4 port).The different types of intelligent cards are, one using standard com port addresses and use 4 IRQ's, and another that's AST FourPort compatible and uses a selectable block of addresses and a single IRQ. If you are getting any one of the card be sure to check it conforms to.

IDE RAID supports built-in performance analysis for RAID array tuning. Automatic controller failover and fail back transparent to the host without requiring software. Automatic and transparent drive rebuild to global hot spares. Automatic Cache Tuning provides maximized I/O throughput for heavy random and write-intensive data trends.

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