Folks,
I'm looking for the recommended way to cobble together a kernel which will
support both RAID and the new Ultra66 66MHz ide interface cards (a nice cheap
way to run a decently zippy RAID array, if I do say so musself ;-) ). As I
see it, I have the following options:
1. linux-2.3.x branch
- Ultra66 support works
- RAID support absent
2. linux-2.2.13 + ide.2.2.13.19991111.patch + raid0145-19990824-2.2.11
- ide patch SEEMS to apply on top of raid0145, rejects appear minor,
but not yet tested
3. linux-2.2.13 + patch-2.2.13ac3 + ide.2.2.13.19991111.patch
- simply a mess of rejects
4. linux-2.2.14-pre
- no idea.
Before I spend a lot of time compiling, mkraiding and benchmarking, can anyone
suggest if 2. really looks like the way to go? I'm having to wipe my 2.2.13 +
Ingo's raid patch + ide.2.2.13.19991111.patch install, because of weird
behaviour and filesystem corruption - see my earlier post (Subject: raid10 odd
failure mode?), so I'd rather not go down the wrong track yet again here.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions/advice/moral support.
-Darren
