Adam Bower wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, D wrote:
Anyone played with IDE Raid and Linux or solid state hard disks?
Do you mean hardware RAID or the software variety? I have the latter built into the kernel on my main fileserver box but havn't played with getting it working yet. I may have a bash at it tonight so watch this space.
There's a "new" breed of mobos which have a sort of hardware/software RAID built-in. It's hardware in as much as there are two extra IDE UDMA 100 channels on the board, and in that there's a dedicated processor to do the biz, and software in that it requires an OS driver to make it all happen. They support RAID 0, 1 and 0+1, all done in a little utility called at boot time. Support in Linux is currently "limited". I tried with the HPT370 chip in SuSE 7.1 and 7.2 and still couldn't get it to run reliably.
Cheers, Laurie.