UDMA Cards and HD CRC Checks

[Carpenter, Dean]

Check recent issues of Linux Journal.  I recall seeing a vendor with boards
up to 8 channels of UDMA, though it was a raid solution.  They were also at
Linux World earlier this year.

And dang it, I can't remember the name :(

--
Dean Carpenter
Principal Architect
Purdue Pharma
dean.carpenter at pharma.com
deano at areyes.com
94TT :)


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Johnston [mailto:sjohnsto at eso.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:16 AM
To: Beowulf List
Subject: UDMA Cards and HD CRC Checks


Hi

I need to select a multi-port (8) UDMA UltraATA board for a set of disks
attached to each node of a Beowulf, and then write something to get the CRC
periodically to check integrity (we will not be using RAID for various
reasons)
amoung other checks.  I have been looking at 'hdparm'.

Can anyone suggest a good board for this, and tell me where to look re
getting
CRC info out of a disk (aka md raid like commands)

TIA, I will summarise

Stephen.