On Sunday 11 November 2001 10:14 pm, you wrote: > civileme wrote: > >On Saturday 10 November 2001 04:11 pm, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >>With the release of motherboards such as the ABIT KT7A-raid (highpoint > >>chip) and and addons like the promise ide raid cards, will Mandrake be > >>supporting these boards out of the box in the next version - 8.2 (that > >>is, install and boot from the raid device) > >> > >>BillK > > > >Look, it is software RAID with a $30 extra price tag for a BIOS add-on, > > and it is secret, proprietary, etc. It is software RAID and linux > > software RAID is superior, because it offers RAID 0, 1, 4, and 5 with > > non-identical disks while these fake hardware RAIDs offer RAID 0 and 1 on > > identical disks. > > > >There is a project for some GPL support so people can read their WinRAID > >partitions off this junk, but calling it junk is probably being kind. > > Check at linux-ide.org for a link to the project and see what the actual > > overall linux support is at > > > >www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html > > > >OF course if the project is successful, we will probably try to include > > it, but mostly for those who have Windows partitions under RAID0 that > > they want to access. It is easier, and the performance is better to use > > linux software RAID, even with these chipsets and their extra PROM > > around. > > > >Civileme > > Civileme, > > With respect, everytime this subject has come up, you've been nothing > short of hostile about it. I admit that the Promise card is NOWHERE > near the efficiency of a SCSI raid card nor is it up to par with a $400 > ide raid card such as the 3ware Escalade card; however it's NOWHERE NEAR > THE PRICE. I have used the Promise ide raid card and it DOES improve > performance - like it or not. You compare to linux software raid; > Windows also has a software raid built into NT and it works great - as > long as you're booted into WINDOWS. Do you see what I'm getting at > here?? I would venture to say, that at least half the people running > linux are doing it on a multi-boot machine - if I use linux software > raid, what does that do when I'm booting into Windows? Or vise-versa? > I have used the Promise raid card on a multi-boot machine with redhat 7 > and windows 2000 and windows 98 all on the same set of striped drives > and ALL of the os's get to take advantage of the speed increase. There > is also great documentation online about how to hack a promise 66 > controller card into a raid card (the type I use) and you've dropped > your cost even more. I'm sorry "yell" so much, but please realize that > not everyone can run out and spend $400 on a raid card and your answer > DOES NOT serve everyone's purpose. Isn't Linux about being resourceful > and thinking of creative new ways of getting things done? Since that > card is a cheap answer for quite a few people, why not entertain the > idea of supporting it? > > Thanks for your time, > Mike
Exellent reply - my thoughts exactly. Incidentally Highpoint have released binary drivers for RH 7 What are the chances of using these with MDK 8.1 ?? Rob
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