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July 13th, 2009, 09:36 AM
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I have two CH3B2E (http://www.conceptronic.nl/site/desktopdefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid=232&cid=30&gid=3010&pid=CH3B2E[/url) storage devices from Conceptronic here, each fitted with two Samsung HE103UJ 1TB Raid- & 24/7 approved drives. That unit has a built in Hardware-RAID-Controller, which identifies as Sil57xx SteelVine.
For M$ Windows there is a 57xx SteelVine Manager software from SiliconImage, which is needed to configure the RAID-mode (I chose RAID1) and to upgrade the firmware, which I just did. The upgrade-firmware-submenu asks for a Sil5744 or Sil5734 firmware image, which is one and the same file to be downloaded from the SiliconImage website. After the upgrade it shows 'IC Revision # Altair2' and 'Firmware 1.1576'.
The unit can be connected to a computer by either USB or eSATA. On my workstation with Ubuntu 9.04 it is recognized correctly, but as expected, smartctl can not show any info, so unless there is a way, to run that SteelVine Manager under Linux, the RAID/drive status can not be checked, exept visually by looking at the LEDs on the front of the unit.
Does anybody else have any experience with that unit or that kind of RAID controller?
I really would like to access the RAID/drive status remotely somehow. On one hand using a Hardware-RAID makes much more sense then a Software-RAID (no OS intervention, no CPU power needed for running the RAID), on the other hand it's very convenient having mdadm for managing. The CH3B2E can be run in JBOD mode as well, but then an eSATA controller, which can handle two drives on one channel, is needed, and it would have the downside of SATA bandwidth sharing on that one channel for both drives.
For M$ Windows there is a 57xx SteelVine Manager software from SiliconImage, which is needed to configure the RAID-mode (I chose RAID1) and to upgrade the firmware, which I just did. The upgrade-firmware-submenu asks for a Sil5744 or Sil5734 firmware image, which is one and the same file to be downloaded from the SiliconImage website. After the upgrade it shows 'IC Revision # Altair2' and 'Firmware 1.1576'.
The unit can be connected to a computer by either USB or eSATA. On my workstation with Ubuntu 9.04 it is recognized correctly, but as expected, smartctl can not show any info, so unless there is a way, to run that SteelVine Manager under Linux, the RAID/drive status can not be checked, exept visually by looking at the LEDs on the front of the unit.
Does anybody else have any experience with that unit or that kind of RAID controller?
I really would like to access the RAID/drive status remotely somehow. On one hand using a Hardware-RAID makes much more sense then a Software-RAID (no OS intervention, no CPU power needed for running the RAID), on the other hand it's very convenient having mdadm for managing. The CH3B2E can be run in JBOD mode as well, but then an eSATA controller, which can handle two drives on one channel, is needed, and it would have the downside of SATA bandwidth sharing on that one channel for both drives.