At 4/25/01 05:25 PM -0400, you wrote:
>I want to set up a RAID using udma drives. I don't think soft RAID is a
>good solution from a performance standpoint. I searched all the hardware
>RAID vendors to find one providing a udma hardware RAID controller that
>would work with Linux. None, so far as I could find, do. The two closest
>seemed to be Promise and Adaptec. Promise says they will be able to do it
>in 6 months. I have not yet gotten and answer from Adaptec.
You should also have on your radar screen Highpoint and AMI. Both make
EIDE/UDMA controllers with RAID functionality as separate controller cards
and built-in controllers for motherboards. Iwill uses the AMI chip in the
KK-200-R and KK-266-R; Abit uses the Highpoint chip in its KT7-RAID and
KT7A-RAID boards. I only mention AMD-based boards since that's what I buy.
I know Highpoint now has Linux drivers for their controller that provide
drive functionality but so far *without* RAID. They're "working on it."
Highpoint can do RAID 0, 1, or 0+1 (no 5).
I went to AMI's site, and they even provide a modified 2.2.16 kernel! This
along with drivers in RPM format and instructions on how to use their stuff
under RedHat. However, I didn't check in detail what level of support their
RAID stuff has yet. Please let the list know what you find out. AMI can do
RAID 0, 1, or 0+1 (no 5) as well I think.
So now we have four options.
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