From: John Lange <john.lange@bighostbox.com>
To: Daniel Kirkegaard Mouritsen <daniel@mouritsen.info>
Cc: LinuxRaid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SATA raid options..
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 12:36:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088876167.22714.19.camel@ws101.darkcore.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1088865298.4974.67.camel@faetterbox.faetter.net>
First you should consult
http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html to read up on your chip
set a bit.
The bottom line is, kernel support for bios "raid" is in the works but
marginal at this time.
As far as I'm aware there isn't any advantage to using these built in
sudo-raid devices. Software raid should outperform it in most all cases.
John
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 09:34, Daniel Kirkegaard Mouritsen wrote:
> I own a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP motherboard, which has 4 serial-ata ports. Two
> of which features RAID functionality.
>
> The serial-ata controller on the motherboard is a Silicon Image 3112A (a
> chip which i haven't been able to find much information about,
> siimage.com doesn't even list it as a product).
>
> I'll soon get a new sata disk(identical to my current disk), and I would
> love to be able to do the following:
>
> * keep using a 2.6.* kernel
> * Use the RAID BIOS administration interface to stripe/administer the
> disks
> * Have both my grub, /boot / and a NTFS-windows partition reside on
> striped set.
>
> Is this at all possible? Can GRUB detect devices created with the
> on-board BIOS assisted raid?
>
> Another thing, I'm getting severely confused what I'm supposed to use as
> a driver for the thing. ATM I found: udev+raiddetect or the
> not-yet-released(or is it? maybe its just me who cant find it :]) dmraid
> is the way to go. Does these both use the device-mapper tool? And can
> anybody tell me if dmraid is 2 or 20 months aways?
>
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
--
John Lange
BigHostBox.com
(204) 885 0872
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-03 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-03 14:34 SATA raid options Daniel Kirkegaard Mouritsen
2004-07-03 17:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-04 3:55 ` Ricky Beam
2004-07-03 17:36 ` John Lange [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1088876167.22714.19.camel@ws101.darkcore.net \
--to=john.lange@bighostbox.com \
--cc=daniel@mouritsen.info \
--cc=linux-raid@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).