On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 16:52 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>/ On 06/07/2010 04:43 PM, Craig White wrote:
/>/ > BIOS RAID sounds suspiciously like fake RAID which meant that you had to
/>/ > load a specific device driver/kernel module just to get Fedora 12
/>/ > installed and that specific driver is not included in the reboot process
/>/ > of preupgrade so it won't work.
/>/
/>/ That's not quite true. Most of the proprietary "BIOS RAID" (aka
/>/ ata-RAID, fake RAID etc.) formats have been supported for quite a long
/>/ time now by the dmraid project:
/>/
/>/ http://people.redhat.com/heinzm/sw/dmraid/
/>/
/>/ Some of the formats (as is the case with Intel ISW on F13) are now using
/>/ MD RAID but it's been quite a while since you had to use non-standard
/>/ proprietary drivers or kernel modules to use these things.
/----
good to know - mostly I use Fedora for desktop and RHEL or CentOS for
servers so I hadn't seen the change but I am generally very careful
about which RAID controller I pick for servers.
Craig
Yes this is Intel fake raid with fedora using mdraid to support it.
No special drivers or kernels needed.
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