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SubjectRe: Adaptec AIC-79xx HostRaid
Jeff Sipek wrote:
> 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).

software RAID is software RAID.

It makes no difference whether you embed the RAID software in the
Adaptec driver or make it a separate module.

Jeff



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