On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 01:18, Robert wrote: > Conventional wisdom (Civilme) has it that the highpoint raid controller > will not offer any more gains than a linux software raid.i too have the > same controller on a Abit board, I used it in raid 0 with windows b4 I > turned to linux. Under windows the benchmarks are great but real life > gains are about 15%.
I might point out here that I came across a set of benchmarks that compared IDE performance across the standard IDE ports and the HPT37X controller IDE ports. The HPT37X ports performed better than standard IDE under those benches; logically therefore you are better off to do soft RAID on the HPT37X. This somewhat justifies your investment; I for one have kept on buying the Abit VIA K-series boards. As I've said before elsewhere, this is also valuable from the viewpoint that you will have two extra standard IDE controllers to play with. Handy for doing data transfers from other drives, and for using them for ATAPI-CD burner connections. > I know highpoint have binary only drivers for RH, Caldera, Suse and a > few others but nothing for Mandrake which is not too surprising given > the bucketing mandrake have put on the highpoint combined with thier > distinct retisence to do anything about supporting it. I seem to recall > quite a deal of discussion on this subject in mandrake user ( I think) > I suspect one could get the kernael source from one of the supported > distros and compile in the drivers and use it as the kernel for mandrake > but I could and most likely wrong on this point. > sorry to be the bearer of disapointing news > Rob BTW, there was a poster here recently that actually had RAID working hardware native using the HPT37X drivers shipped in LM82. I believe it was Gregorio P�rez Aguilera. And he too was using an Abit KT7A-Raid. He posted his message on April 16th at 2:02PM here on the expert list. LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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