Re: AW: Promise Ultra66 -> FastTrak66

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 16:50:52 EST


On Mon, 22 May 2000, Martin Bene wrote:

> > > adapter to a raid controller. Linux finds the hard disks as if it
> > > was a ordinary Ultra66 controller. But how do you get the RAID
> > > stuff to work?
> >
> > The raid is in software. It gains you nothing much in Linux - we have our
> > own software raid
>
> Well, it can still gain you some things even in linux:
>
> 1) having raid support in the bios increases chances of the system being
> able to boot even if the firrst disk should be somewhat damaged - if it's
> still visible to the bios but boot record /kernel can no longer be read
> you'll need manual intervention to get the system back up again with
> software raid.

Wrong.......unless the kernel know how to read the RAID and determine
faults.........will not happen. I managed to invoke hardware by accident
an then tried to test the stablity of it by unpluging a drive........

DEAD System..........

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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