> A few of us have also made working driver disks for both HPT370 and Promise > FastTrak, but we got stuck at the partitioning stage because anaconda does > not seem to recognize that the kernel modules are loaded, and the existence > of the /dev/ataraid/* devices. If you are using the HPT370 controller md0 > is not the array you are thinking of, that is the Linux native software RAID > array. Sure, i was tring to fool the installer... With no luck! > If you are using only Linux on your computer, consider using the native md0 > software array. It has greater performance than the HPT370 and FastTrak > controllers, and it works out-of-the-box. I went through the trouble of > installing it onto my FastTrak because I wanted dual boot with RH 7.2 and > Windows 2000 on the same RAID array. This is not possible with both Linux > and Windows software RAID on the same disks. In fact, this is a linux only machine; but i'm surprised to learn that the software raid is faster than the hardware one ... It's true that the ata cards are not like the scsi one but i though that the hardware could be at least more efficient than the software raid... Is it true only for raid-0 ? Or also for others ? Does the software raid add a cpu overhead that the ataraid don't have ? thanks for all Jean-Baptiste Vignaud
