On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i have an HPT370 IDE RAID controller..which kicks butt of my adaptec
> uw scsi with a 30MB/s transfer rate, compared to the latter's 20.
> anyway, the linux driver says it does not support the card's RAID yet.
> question is, isn't hardware raid supposed to be transparent to the
> software(os) anyway? doesnt the os see just one disk or partition?
>
it would still require drivers... how would the kernel talk to the
controller it it doesn't know how to ? ... AFAIK, there are only two
hardware raids supported ... compaq's smart array (the one with their raid
on a chip thingy) and another one from adaptec (which is relatively new).
linux still need to support more in this area ...
-mark
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