On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:18:39AM -0000, Pedro Ruivo (TRQV-DSI) wrote: [ please don't top post. ]
> Thanks for you msg. > What i'd like to would be to use hardware raid, i'm used to Compaq (HPAQ) > servers whith smart array controller i thought i would get the same kind of > functionality (limited to raid 0 and 1) on this ide controller. > > I guess i'll toss out this controller and use the onboard ide controller (1 > disk on each channel as i have a SCSI CD-Rom). There's a world of difference between your average SCSI RAID controller, and your average IDE RAID controller, the difference being that the IDE versions are almost always vastly inferior[1]. > Maybe i keep the controller just to try with a newer kernel. This is a Promise controller, right? They don't exactly have a great reputation with regards to good hardware or with providing the necessary info to create a device driver. > Guess Debian is out of hardware manufacturers linux distro list. Only if the hardware manufacturer isn't interested in supporting linux. Adaptec figured this out a long time ago. > I understand the difficulty to make a "for Linux" driver, and hope that LSB > get's more attention in order to easy this Linux difficulties which M$ > doesn't have. I don't understand the difficulty .. all you have to do is release the appropriate information with the hardware. If you want a driver written real fast, you hire someone to do it or send a free on to Alan Cox[2]. of course there are plenty of hardware manufacturers out there who don't want to release hardware specs for varoius reasons.[3] I also don't see how the LSB is going to help in this arena; the LSB is a "standard base" which third party software can depend on to provide certain features and library versions. [1] I hear 3ware doesn't suck, but I've never used one. [2] Or some other intelligent kernel hacker type [3] Video guys like to claim that they'll reveal some trade secret if they release specs. I've been hearing that song since I started playing with computers in the 80s. I suspect in this case Promise doesn't want to release specs because that would make it apparent that their RAID card isn't really a RAID card. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. -- Laurence J. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
