Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:55:38 +0100 | From | Wilfried Weissmann <> | Subject | Re: State of RAID (and the infamous FastTrak100 card) |
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Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > So... am I just begging for pain if I try to install, say, a stock RH7 > > on a machine with the FastTrak100 doing it's little RAID0/JBOD thing? > > If it requires this machine to always boot from a floppy because the driver > > cannot be linked into the kernel, well, I'm okay with that. > > I don't know about the state of the FastTrak100 IDE drivers - but if you can > get that running, putting software RAID on top of that should be a simple > matter.
I do not think that would work. These IDE RAID use a slightly different layout that someone would expect. This means that you cannot map it 1:1 to any RAID personality, therefore you cannot boot from it.
(Free)BSD supports this IDE RAID controller with the RAID functionality. Maybe you want to check it out. I want to write a kernel module for 2.4 which supports the HPT370 RAID. You can be sure that I will peek at the FreeBSD code. In fact that is the only documentation I have.
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