Bill Kenworthy wrote: >This has been done to death a few times. Basicly if you want to use >raid simply on this board, go redhat. Whilst I have not done it, it >seems that their install will detect it and install the drivers in >RH7.2. I was looking over the shoulder of someone doing an install and >it was even a menu choice! > It's in the kernel, a kernel upgrade sould do the trick(IDE RAID), but anyway whay use HP's crappy bios implementation that craps up after each bios upgrade and is slow as a snail, when you have Linux Software raid, tested the speed with HPT370 and found Software raid much faster and more stable.
> >For Mandrake, you are stuck with pure software raid with no use of the >HP chip - I guess the difference between an OS aimed at the desktop and >less towards a server setup. Can be done but requires a *LOT* of >reading and research - I am trying to figure out how to do this and not >lose any of the 40gb of data already on the system that I have nowhere >to back up to because I could not find the info needed when the machine >was built. > >Note that the howto's are very detailed,but quite technical. > >BillK > >On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 09:11, Eugenio Diaz wrote: > >>Well, I finaly finished building my new machine (lots of tie wraps, cable >>routing, etc.), an Abit KR7A-RAID with dual ATA133 60GB maxtors on a stripe. >>But I just found that Linux do not support the HPT372 on board raid controller >> >>>:<) Double Damn the assholes at High Point!!! I bought this board with the >>> >>impression that High Point was a Linux friendly company, since when I was doing >>my light pre-shopping research I saw a big prominent Linux Logo on their >>page!!! >> >>Can Mandrake put pressure with Abit on High Point to release specs, or whatever >>is needed for the drivers to be merged into the kernel, and not those stupid >>binary drivers for old Linux distros ... >> >>Do you guys know if it is posible to take the RH7.1 drivers they provide, and >>cram them (some how disabling the versioning of symbols) into an initrd to make >>a custom Cooker install discs? >> >>BTW, this message was copied to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", so if you reply, >>do a reply all, so that they can see how stupid they are ... my immediate >>reaction was to return the board, but since I invested so much time building >>the box nicely, I am just going to disable the raid controller, and install on >>the normal ATA100 channels. >> >>THANKS HIGH POINT!!!! >> >>===== >>________________________ >>Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE >>Linux Engineer >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>__________________________________________________ >>Do You Yahoo!? >>Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! >>http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ >> > > >
