Wilfried Weissmann wrote:
>
> Jakob Østergaard wrote:
> > > So... am I just begging for pain if I try to install, say, a stock RH7
> > > on a machine with the FastTrak100 doing it's little RAID0/JBOD thing?
> > > If it requires this machine to always boot from a floppy because the driver
> > > cannot be linked into the kernel, well, I'm okay with that.
> >
> > I don't know about the state of the FastTrak100 IDE drivers - but if you can
> > get that running, putting software RAID on top of that should be a simple
> > matter.
>
> I do not think that would work. These IDE RAID use a slightly different layout that
>someone would
> expect. This means that you cannot map it 1:1 to any RAID personality, therefore you
>cannot boot
> from it.
>
> (Free)BSD supports this IDE RAID controller with the RAID functionality. Maybe you
>want to check it
> out.
Jakob ment the kernel software-RAID, md.0, raid0.o, raid1.o, raid5.o,
and linear.o
Not the Promise RAID software.
-Thomas
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