On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 05:33:32PM +0200, Roman v. Gemmeren wrote: > Hallo ted, > > Am Saturday, September 16, 2006, 4:51:47 PM, schrieben Sie: > > thx for the reply, i had the raid working under nforce4 with dmraid just fine, but > the board crashed, thats why i'm stuck with this new board now.. > > As far as i know most of the onboard Raid Controllers are just some > coverup for a software raid, since you need the drivers (e.g. for > winxp). Yes. > > I can use both sata drives fine, but not as raid, because no driver > AND not (yet) supported by dmraid. > > The dmraid-site told me to post to this list. I would be willing to > test and provide as much assistance as possible. > > However, i will continue trying to bug the Asus support, until i get a > definitive answer... at least now (after ~3 weeks and 3 requests) i > got an response about the issue with registering my mainboard...;\ Hrm, I'ld better have the metadata specs to make a dmraid ULI metadata format handler happen. Regards, Heinz > > > I had posted an earlier message stating that the NVidia raid controller was > > linux compatible. > > > Well it isn't. > > > While the bios setup raid arrays SHOULD look like a single device per array > > they actually still appear as individual devices. > > > Since the manufacturers either explicitly don't support linux or provide > > very little support (i.e. moving from 2.4 to 2.6 linux sabotaged all my raid > > arrays), my opinion is that any reliance on unsupported software has long > > term maintainability issues. > > > I have decided to disable all on board raid controllers and just use the > > SATA interfaces as single dmraid drives. > > > This also provides the ability to move disk arrays around to other linux > > boxes without having to worry about what controllers to use. > > > I think embedded raid is really useless because support is spotty and there > > is no compatibility standard. > > > The raid manufacturers really need to go out of business. > > > Tedc > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roman v. Gemmeren > > Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 3:39 AM > > To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: dmraid: ULI-Raid1 support? > > > Hi ataraid-list, > > > > i'm wondering if it is possible to get support for the ULI-m5288 RAID > > into dmraid? Asus has only binary drivers for RH, Fedora and Suse, > > but no source or anything... I already tried mailing them, but i > > couldn't register my mainboard yet (because they messed sth. up with > > those serial-numbers) and therefore cannot contact the technical > > support..;\ > > > Any help to get my Asus A8R-MVP working with Sata-Raid1 is > > appreciated. > > > THX! > > > greets, > > Roman v. Gemmeren > > greets, > Roman v. Gemmeren > > -- > I just had a NOSE JOB!! > > _______________________________________________ > Ataraid-list mailing list > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx PHONE +49 171 7803392 FAX +49 2626 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list mailing list Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
