Quoting Paul Jakma (paul at clubi.ie):
> Most definitely. Check out 'dmraid' too, which can setup devmapper to
> map disks to various $ODDBALL "proprietary" soft-raid disk formats,
> no idea whether highpoint is supported though.
Yes, Highpoint 37X is. See below.
> Also, Jeff Garzik's libata has a WIP driver for some of the Marvell
> host controllers, which might be what the Highpoint uses.
_Not_ the 154x/1640, which is what John said this is.
> IME with sata_sil, even a beta driver from Jeff Garzik will be better
> quality than a vendor IDE/SCSI host driver (and improve far more
> rapidly).
Garzik has no driver for non-Marvell-based Highpoint cards -- so one
ends up either using the proprietary vendor driver (I wouldn't) or the
standard drivers/ide set.
> See http://linux.yyz.us/sata/, particularly the HPT entry on the SATA
> status page:
>>http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html#hpt>> and obviously the marvell entry just above it. If your HPT doesnt use
> a Marvell, you're out of luck.
Well, not "out of luck": You use the drivers/ide set for generic block
device support, and then do RAID using the standard Linux "md" driver.
Or, if on 2.6 kernels, and _if_ the Highpoint chipset is of the 37X
series, you can use the dmraid successor to 2.4's ataraid architecture,
and be able to support Highpoint fakeraid directly.
More at: "Serial ATA" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Hardware/
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