[ILUG] HighPoint SATA RAID

[John Madden]

On (15/11/04 16:56), Conall O'Brien didst pronounce:
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> I added the card to the system and added 2 of my 3 250GB S-ATA disks to
> it. I was anticipating a kernel rebuild to get it to work, but the disks
> just appeared as hdX disks to the system without any rebuild.
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Ya, there're hpt modules in the kernel that will see the drives as IDE
drives. However, I'm using a driver from HighPoint (see
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr1640.htm#LinuxDrivers) to have
it recognised as a SCSI RAID device. I used the card's BIOS to make a
RAID from the 4 250GB SATA disks, and with the HighPoint driver, it's
picked up as a SCSI device.

Would I possibly be better off to use the IDE drivers in the kernel and
use software RAID on the disks?

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> Give me a shout and I'll provide my .config for you to take a look at... =

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Cheers, it can't hurt. Can you mail it to me, or put it on the web
somewhere?

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Chat ya later,

John.
--
BOFH excuse #1: clock speed
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