On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:47:12AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:16:25PM -0800, Karl R. Balsmeier wrote: > > My question is this: Does anyone out there in userland have any experience > > with these cards and getting them to work with Debian? Is it better to use > > the CD set insteal of the 3-floppy approach (rescue,root.bin,module load, > > reboot)? Intel purchased this company, and the manual notes it works fine > > with Debian, using the gdth.0 module. I am just curious about this, > > because RAID is complex to begin with. > > Forgive my ignorance, but shouldn't hardware RAID be completely > transparent to the running OS? Or is the module designed to let you > administer the RAID setup?
It's simply a hardware driver, just like aic7xxx for Adaptec 2940 and friends, promise drivers for promise IDE controllers, etc. Most RAID controllers present each RAID set as a single SCSI disc. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You can have Peace, or you can have Freedom. Don't ever count on having both at the same time. -- Robert A. Heinlein
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