On Friday 05 January 2001 03:41, you wrote:
> Anyone know what drivers to use for this board so that ATA100 and RAID will
> work?
>
> TIA
> STeve
You have ATA/100 out of the box, just enable HD optimisations.
RAID on IDE isn't really RAID but a software/firmware implementation, very
bastardized. You should be able to run dual boot with a windows RAID and
linux on the non-RAID partitions, and linux will see the RAID incorrectly so
no file exchange.
There are four competing RAIDs for IDE, all secret. None work with linux
because they are not really hardware RAIDs. (check it out--you get ONE RAID
partition). There is a better implementation of RAID (pure software)
available on linux, but though the manufacturers admit it is better than
theirs, none will risk their "Intellectual Property". For the opinion of
Andre Hedrick, the guru of ide for the linux kernel, see this article.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001127032845
If you want real RAID, get SCSI.
Civileme
