[ILUG] IDE-RAID 133Mhz & distros that support it?

[Wynne, Conor]

Ah shite, I have the highpoint, I'm still building the box [hardware] so hadn't booted it yet. 

I shall let ye all know of the outcome, it is a newer than 370 highpoint coz its got the 370 aswell as a new one. 
I shall definitely try to make a raid1 in the BIOS and see if it presents itself as a single drive to the OS. Know tonight if I can figure out where my poxy allen keys have gone :( 
[Yeah, allen keys to install CDROMS an stuff, thats so gay]


Later
CW

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fasttrack chips, and the Highpoint HPT370 ones. All they do is provide
bios boot support for software raid. That software raid has drivers for
windows, linux and freebsd (if not the other *bsd's). The main problem
is that the distro's installation programs don't understand the
resulting partitions. Redhat actually have support for those raid
chipsets in the the 7.2 installation kernel, but the patch to the
installation program itself was botched or never applied (can't remember
which). Anyway, the short of it is that unless something has changed in
the very latest releases, you'll have to install onto a spare hd, and
copy across the installation when it's finished. That works fine - i did
it, more out of curiousity than anything else.

Steve
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