Re: Adaptec AIC-79xx HostRaid

[Jeff Garzik]

Jeff Sipek wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 01:21:05PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:13:03PM +0100, Clemente Aguiar wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > We have acquired some IBM xServers which have an integrated raid controller
> > > based on the Adaptec AIC-79xx U320 SCSI controller (called HostRaid).
> > >
> > > Is there already support for HostRaid? Are there drivers for it?
> > > > From which kernel version and where do I find it in the config?
> >
> > HostRaid is just software RAID; you can ignore it and let Linux use the
> > underlying SCSI devices via the standard aic79xx driver.
>
>
> As far as I know, it is software raid done much closer to the hw than
> the linux sw raid (md).

software RAID is software RAID.

It makes no difference whether you embed the RAID software in the 
Adaptec driver or make it a separate module.

	Jeff



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