[ILUG] RAID-0 q&a

[Wesley Darlington]

Howdy,

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:30:32PM +0100, Stephane Dudzinski wrote:
> That's alright for the windows part, i only use linux.

Oh good!

> That's a pain not to have proper drivers :(

Ah, it's not that bad. You're probably better off using linux' software 
raid anyhow: the windows `drivers' are just an implementation of software 
raid, AIUI. 

Mind you, I've just found...

    http://www.rug-rats.org/~wilfried/

...which looks interesting, although I'm pretty sure I'd prefer linux'
software raid. For starters, I could use every ata channel, and then
some...

ATB,
Wesley.


> On 08 May 2001 13:28:02 +0100, Wesley Darlington wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:14:51PM +0100, Stephane Dudzinski wrote:
> > > I ran into a small problem last time on my box. I've got an Abit KT7A
> > > RAID with integrated HPT 370 controller. I did setup a RAID0 container
> > > of two 20GB drives, it then saw happily a 37.8GB drive. Went into the
> > > redhat 7.1 and it didn't load up any module to care of RAID. And it then
> > > saw : 2 drives :(
> > > 
> > > Wondering if there are specific parameters to give on boot, anybody
> > > tried that ? (i am not talking about software RAID but hardware with
> > > controller).
> > 
> > AIUI, the HPT370's built-int `raid' is almost completely a *software* 
> > implementation. It depends on OS drivers. Linux doesn't have such
> > drivers, AFAIK.
> > 
> > If you want to do raid on disks on your HPT370, you'll have to use linux'
> > own software raid. This implies that you can't easily dual boot to windows
> > and linux on raid0.
> > 
> > Wesley.
> > 
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