Hi, AFAIK the only REAL hardware RAID for IDE are the 3ware controllers.
I have one Soyo MoBo with an HPT370 (RAID 0/1/0+1) and an Intel MoBo with a Promise FastTrack 100. I'd sugest that you buy another cheap ATA100/133 controller (ie: CMD649 chipset) and make a RAID5 array with the disks with software RAID (there are instructions in Bedtime Reading -> RAID). You'll have a 120GB array. COL 3.1.1 recognizes both controlles as standard IDE controllers. With RedHat 71./7.2 don't (at least with the Promise controller). I've reading about the BIOS RAID (HPT/Promise) support for Linux and it's pretty much useless (ei: it's not fault tolerant. If one disk fails, your server will crash). Right now, I have to servers running with soft raid (mirroring) without problems (both running COL 3.1.1, one of them using XFS). On Sáb 22 Jun 2002 00:39, Myles Green wrote: > I'm trying to set up a server to replace the system currently hosting my > mirror of linux-sxs.org and have run into a problem that currently has > me stumped. Here's a list of the hardware invloved: > > Case - Chieftech 26" full tower > MoBo - Shuttle AK35GT2R w/ onboard HighPoint 370/372 RAID controler > CPU - Athlon XP 1800+ > RAM - 2 GB Samsung DDR PC2700 (4 x 512MB) > HDD - 4 x Maxtor 40GB ATA 133 (Liquid) > CDROM- LG 52x > Floppy - Panasonic 1.44 MB > Video - Nvidia TNT2 M64 32MB VRAM > NIC - D-Link DFE-538TX/R 10/100 > > I can create a RAID 0+1 setup in the HighPoint BIOS if, and only if, I > leave the drives jumpered as 'cable select'. If I try to jumper them > manually it can only see the two slave drives - incorrectly identified > as having 70+ GB capacity. > > Slackware has a bootdisk with the correct drivers for the HighPoint > chipset which boots up fine and then asks for the 'root disk' (which is > actually a set of 5 floppies labeled install.1, install.2 etc.), then I > get to select the keyboard and login as root but after that, all I get > is screenfulls of scrolling hexidecimal (?) numbers. > > Anybody seen this or have any suggestions? I'm all ears... > > TIA, _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
