From: Wilfried Weissmann <Wilfried.Weissmann@gmx.at>
To: pedwards@disaster.jaj.com,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: State of RAID (and the infamous FastTrak100 card)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:55:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AB12C4A.84152B20@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010314155801.A7054@disaster.jaj.com> <20010314232714.A19404@unthought.net>
Jakob Østergaard wrote:
> > So... am I just begging for pain if I try to install, say, a stock RH7
> > on a machine with the FastTrak100 doing it's little RAID0/JBOD thing?
> > If it requires this machine to always boot from a floppy because the driver
> > cannot be linked into the kernel, well, I'm okay with that.
>
> I don't know about the state of the FastTrak100 IDE drivers - but if you can
> get that running, putting software RAID on top of that should be a simple
> matter.
I do not think that would work. These IDE RAID use a slightly different layout that someone would
expect. This means that you cannot map it 1:1 to any RAID personality, therefore you cannot boot
from it.
(Free)BSD supports this IDE RAID controller with the RAID functionality. Maybe you want to check it
out.
I want to write a kernel module for 2.4 which supports the HPT370 RAID. You can be sure that I will
peek at the FreeBSD code. In fact that is the only documentation I have.
Wilfried
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-15 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-14 20:58 State of RAID (and the infamous FastTrak100 card) Phil Edwards
2001-03-14 22:27 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-03-15 20:55 ` Wilfried Weissmann [this message]
2001-03-15 21:20 ` Thomas Dodd
2001-03-19 17:43 ` Phil Edwards
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