From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:21:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:21:37 -0500 Received: from ns2.cypress.com ([157.95.67.5]:36264 "EHLO ns2.cypress.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:21:21 -0500 Message-ID: <3AB1321B.ECBFFCEA@cypress.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:20:27 -0600 From: Thomas Dodd Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Southeast Design Center X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en-US, en-GB, en, de-DE, de-AT, de-CH, de, zh-TW, zh-CN, zh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilfried Weissmann CC: pedwards@disaster.jaj.com, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: State of RAID (and the infamous FastTrak100 card) In-Reply-To: <20010314155801.A7054@disaster.jaj.com> <20010314232714.A19404@unthought.net> <3AB12C4A.84152B20@gmx.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Wilfried Weissmann wrote: > > 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. Jakob ment the kernel software-RAID, md.0, raid0.o, raid1.o, raid5.o, and linear.o Not the Promise RAID software. -Thomas