On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Mark Anthony J. Mercado wrote:
..
> 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).
Nu-uh!! the HighPoint HPT370 and Promise 20262+RAID solutions are NOT
HARDWARE RAID. Neither is the RAID controller on the ABIT KT7-RAID!! these
are ALL software RAID solutions!!
They just have some BIOS code that can trick the PC into booting off a
RAID volume, but the actual grunt work is done by the main processor!! not
a big issue, <1% on a 400MHz processor, but IT'S NOT HARDWARE RAID. Again:
IT'S NOT HARDWARE RAID.
The *only* hardware IDE RAID solutions supported on Linux right now are
the 3ware Escalade and a single Adaptec product (honking PCI card, it's
full-length).
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