Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:50:17 -0700 (PDT) | From | Aleksey Gorelov <> | Subject | RE: Generic Disk Driver in Linux |
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--- Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:21 -0700, Aleksey Gorelov wrote: > > > > --- Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > it'll be easier and quicker to rev engineer 5 more formats than it will > > > > > be to get the bios thing working ;) And the performance of the bios > > > > probably true - I'm actually not great fan of originally proposed approach. But, > > > > unfortunately, manufactures and vendors still look more to MS. Until market > > > > situation changes, there is always a gap... > > > > > > there are only so many different ways to describe raid0. > > > And those companies aren't going to keep changing that "just because", > > > changing costs them money, so there is an incentive for them to keep it > > > as is > > > > Bottom line is - today there is lack of support for it, > > can you name one? > (so far all you did was claim this but not name even one) > Here is a good support status http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html you can start with those who has proprietary binary only drivers.
I should admit though, that dmraid support has improved lately. For instance, they recently added Adaptec support, which has not been there before.
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