Wilfried,
Why a module?
Why not have the detection and flags that hook the md driver for linux and
use linux's software raid?
Cheers,
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Wilfried Weissmann wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > > Andre Hedrick wrote:
> >
> > > However as far as I can see everyone who has a FastTrak which is "stuck"
> > > in RAID mode[1] would be happy if it worked as a normal IDE controller
> > > in Linux, which is (usually?) not the case - eg on the MSI board where
> > > only the first channel is seen.
> >
> > I have a patch to work around that. However the better solution would be to
> > have a native driver for the raid; I plan to start working on that next
> > week...
>
> I am doing the same for the HighPoint-Tech 370 (talking about the RAID driver).
>Disk-striping is
> working so far. My code is based on the kernel patches for MDs from Neil Brown. I
>created an own
> RAID-personality for the module.
> When I looked at the FreeBSD implementation I had the idea of making a "supermodule"
>which could
> contain serveral IDE-RAID drivers (e.g.: Proise FastTrack + HPT370). There would be
>a super
> personality for ATA-RAID and several low-level drivers for the individual
>controllers.
>
> Interrested? Ideas? Hints, Tips, ...? Wanna team up? <8)
>
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Arjan van de Ven
>
> regards,
> Wilfried
>
> PS: An uppercase THANX goes to Nail Brown!
>
> --
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>
Andre Hedrick
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