On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Warren Togami wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:03:17 -1000 > From: Warren Togami <warren@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Install Redhat 7.2 with HPT 370 > [...] > > > How do I install redhat 7.2 with HPT 370 IDE RAID on 0? > > > I am talking about fresh install. > > > > Isn't this working just like the installation of redhat 7.1?. There was no > > problem here installing redhat 7.1 on my HPT 370A RAID 0. > > Download the drivers from Highpoint, a boot and driver disk. > > Highpoint didn't make their binary only drivers for Red Hat 7.2 yet. > > Their binary only drivers (and also Promise) have been known to not work on > several onboard controllers and hacked controllers, and you can't upgrade > your kernel when using their binary only modules. > > Please let me quote Arjan first: > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 05:21:57 -0400 > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Misc questions > On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:17:09AM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Vignaud wrote: > > 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 ? > don't let the marketing folks fool you: ataraid IS software raid. Promise > and highpoint raid is software raid, but with bios boot support..... So if one is not forced to use HPT BIOS-supported RAID (as far as I heard some M$ systems require this), why bother with all those binary-only drivers and so on? I have installed RHL 7.2 on ABIT BX-133 RAID motherboard (which has HPT370A on-board), using two 40GB Seagate drives and linux software raid-1 (mirroring) without any problems, then upgraded kernel and other packages from ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2 and everything is still working fine. (I used LILO rather than GRUB if I remember correctly, but the only reason was that I was familiar with LILO and was rather short of time). Best regards, Wojtek -------------------- Wojtek Pilorz Wojtek.Pilorz@xxxxxx
