From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jeff Sipek <jeffpc@optonline.net>
Cc: Clemente Aguiar <caguiar@madeiratecnopolo.pt>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC-79xx HostRaid
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 14:05:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <429B55CC.1060505@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050530180156.GA32606@optonline.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-30 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-30 17:13 Adaptec AIC-79xx HostRaid Clemente Aguiar
2005-05-30 17:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-30 18:01 ` Jeff Sipek
2005-05-30 18:05 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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2005-05-30 17:48 Clemente Aguiar
2005-05-30 18:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-05-30 20:52 Eric Jones
2005-05-30 21:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
[not found] <49Zx1-8ne-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <49ZZT-qS-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-05-30 23:54 ` Robert Hancock
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