On Friday 14 February 2003 16:39, Pedro Ruivo (TRQV-DSI) wrote: > It turns out that although i could use it with RedHat, Suse, > Turbo,...,Linux they don't provide drivers for debian, they do provide a > "open source driver".
That open source driver supports the chip as a simple IDE controller. They distribute a precompiled object file and a "wrapper" driver to use RAID functionality though. > Can someone tell me if it's possible, and how, to build a fault > tolerant (RAID1) system with this IDE controller. Has anyone got it to work > under Debian ? You could always use the controller as simple IDE controller using standard kernel drivers and build software RAID. For RAID 0 and 1 this usually produces a very minimal performance hit. You have to jump through some loops in order to make it bootable though. For information about that, here's a page that helped me set up a simple RAID1: http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.html There are native Highpoint RAID drivers in kernel 2.4.20 (IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices -> Support for IDE Raid controllers), but I don't know how well those work. > I have to say one other thing, wich is the disappointmento with > linux in this concern, shouldn't there be "a Linux Driver" ? > I find drivers for Red Hat, Suse, Turbo, ... Linux but not for > Debian and specially not a "for Linux" Driver. Building drivers for specific distributions is usually easier that producing closed source "Linux drivers". When you write driver for, let's say RedHat 8.1, you know what kernel is installed and where to put config stuff. That's a lot more difficult with Linux in general since it's an uncontrolled battlefield. The LSB was supposed to make this easier, but... well... no. If you want a well-designed system, use *BSD. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
