Re: Promise SATA driver

From: Henrik Gustafsson
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 12:04:59 EST


On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:47:36 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Andrew Walrond wrote:
I take it the software raid thing wasn't part of the gpl'ed driver, and isn't something that is likely to happen?


In 2.4, RAID0 and RAID1 are supported via the pdcraid driver.

In 2.6, Promise software RAID support does not exist. In conversations with Promise, we all agreed to encourage and support the standard Linux RAID, md.

Jeff

Does that apply to the FastTrack S150 SX4 aswell? The hardware XOR-engine will not be used?
What about the onboard cache?

// Henrik Gustafsson
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