From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aleksey Gorelov Subject: RE: Generic Disk Driver in Linux Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:50:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20060825165017.75036.qmail@web83105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <1156493021.3032.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1156493021.3032.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, daniel.rodrick@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org, satinder.jeet@gmail.com --- Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:21 -0700, Aleksey Gorelov wrote: > > > > --- Arjan van de Ven 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs