Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

2004-10-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Niels wrote: > Promise Netherlands told me today that the kernel 2.6.x.x drivers > probably come next year. On a dutch forum they told me (2 secs ago) that > the name of a non-true hardware controller is a firmware controller. dependin on your ideas/view... h

Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

2004-10-05 Thread Niels
Promise Netherlands told me today that the kernel 2.6.x.x drivers probably come next year. On a dutch forum they told me (2 secs ago) that the name of a non-true hardware controller is a firmware controller. I created a picture http://www.xs4all.nl/~mghvl404/bin/fotos/got/RAID0uitleg.gif to exp

Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

2004-10-05 Thread Paul Yeatman
Well, definitely sounds like you know what you want :) Seems like my confusion between you saying "software" and "hardware" controller is, as Paolo was saying, the Promise FastTrak isn't a "true" hardware controller apparently. It still requires some software, ie. kernel module, on the software s

Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

2004-10-05 Thread Niels
I shall explain my choises. I really want to buy a RAID 0 (striping) controller, because my current harddisk is the bottleneck in my current system. I have a dual XP-M 2800+ with 1Gbit NIC and 1GB memory. I have read enough about RAID 0. I really want it! I know that it is not safe, but I can b

Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

2004-10-04 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:53:39 +0200, Niels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to buy a Promise Fasttrack TX2 plus RAID 0 controller with two > SATA hard disks. The controller is a software controller. I want no > other hard disks than these two in my PC. Can I boot of this setup with > the

Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

2004-10-04 Thread Paul Yeatman
"software controller": isn't the point of having a RAID card to use hardware RAID? I am doing virtually what you are asking about. I have a FastTrak TX2 card and am mirror two disks on which I have my Debian build. The biggest part I would question of your proposal is that it--hardware RAID'ing

Re: Software RAID 0 and linux 2.6.8.1

2004-10-04 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Niels wrote: > I want to buy a Promise Fasttrack TX2 plus RAID 0 controller with two > SATA hard disks. The controller is a software controller. I want no > other hard disks than these two in my PC. Can I boot of this setup with > the 2.6 kernel? yes... > Is it possible