I have an Sun Fire X4200 m2 that I’m trying to get raid 5 on. The controller that came with the machine is weak and only supports raid 1,0, 1e. I know I can do software raid through windows server 2003 disk management, but here’s my question is there an add on non sun card (sun doesn’t have any offerings) to give me h/w raid 5 or can I configure the raid 5 to span across only three (using a partition) disks and leave the forth for hot spare?
I would really appreciate some help. I’m dyin’ here.
