On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, Áts Attila wrote: >Hi, > >have any of you ever heard of or used a RAID controller >that is capable of "RAIDing" with IDE disks? Is there >suuport for a card like this in Linux?
I have used software RAID on IDE in 2.2.x kernels. It works fine but requires a lengthy RAID check after a reset (this involves reading all partitions in the RAID set entirely). In 2.4.0* kernels this isn't necessary, it can do a RAID check in the background. This works really well in 2.4.0-test5, in 2.4.0-test4 and -test3 it didn't work at all, and in 2.4.0-test2 it would hang under heavy load. For hardware RAID on IDE drives check http://www.bigstorage.com/ , however last time I talked to them they only supported 40MB/s transfer rates which is pretty poor (a single IDE drive can sustain 33MB/s...). -- My current location - X marks the spot. X X X
