Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 May 2005 14:01:56 -0400 | From | Jeff Sipek <> | Subject | Re: Adaptec AIC-79xx HostRaid |
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On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 01:21:05PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:13:03PM +0100, Clemente Aguiar wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > We have acquired some IBM xServers which have an integrated raid controller > > based on the Adaptec AIC-79xx U320 SCSI controller (called HostRaid). > > > > Is there already support for HostRaid? Are there drivers for it? > > >From which kernel version and where do I find it in the config? > > HostRaid is just software RAID; you can ignore it and let Linux use the > underlying SCSI devices via the standard aic79xx driver.
As far as I know, it is software raid done much closer to the hw than the linux sw raid (md).
There is a module (binary only) from Adaptec that lets Linux use HostRaid, but from what I saw, it just worked with RHEL 3.x and some other ancient RH releases. When I was installing RHEL 4 on an IBM xServer, I decided to just do standard linux sw array.
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