From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: SATA raid options.. Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 13:05:05 -0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40E6E741.9090800@pobox.com> References: <1088865298.4974.67.camel@faetterbox.faetter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1088865298.4974.67.camel@faetterbox.faetter.net> To: Daniel Kirkegaard Mouritsen Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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? dmraid will be required for use, and its 2-4 months away, I would guess. Why not just use md raid? BIOS RAID is _always_ crap. Jeff