Re: Promise PDC20378 Raid Accelerator

[Michael De Nil]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 07:24:34PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Michael De Nil wrote:
> > >Can someone tell me if I will be able to run 2 SATA discs on a raid1 with
> > >this chip, and if yes, what driver you would prefer? I am a litle bit
> > >afraid for using non-stable drivers... ;)
> >
> >
> > The all-open-source solution...  Linux "md" raid, and Linux SATA drivers :)
>
> One caveat: you *may* have to create "one disk RAID-0" arrays of your
> disks (which is equivalent to the single disk), in order to make the
> SATA controller boot from the disk.  So, with two disks, you would
> create two RAID-0 arrays, each containing one disk.  Silly really, but
> at least I had to do this with the Promise TX4.
>
> Other than that; Standard Linux SATA drivers + Software RAID + LVM2 is a
> beautiful all-open-source solution for cheap flexible and reliable
> storage  -  my mom is using that   ;)
>

Thanks for the tip Jakob!

Can someone tell me if there is yet any support for hot swapping the sata
drives?


Thanks

michael
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