On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:42:39PM +0100, Oliver Heinz wrote: > > Libata support seems to be derived from the pdc-ultra-driver which seems to > be non-raid only unlike the partly closed source par15-driver, right? > When I boot with libata enabled on a pdc20378 in raid-mode I get two > independend drives instead off one raid-array. Which is typically also the case with W2k/XP/etc. except that the driver "hides" that fact to you by interpreting the on disk/bios information and it then does the sofware RAID. Thus you are using Software RAID with BIOS support for booting the RAID. Elsewher called "quasi-raid". > Will raid-mode be supported? Is there a way I can help? Or maybe it's just > stupid to complain about missing support on a quite powerful machine (2xXeon > 2.6GHz), and I should use software raid anyway? Refer to the (getting obsolete) ataraid/pdcraid/hptraid modules, which emulated the Windows driver. > Does libata (need to?) support hot-plugging? Hopefully it does :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
