On Friday 18 October 2002 08:05, Sagi Bashari wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have any experience with the Promise 20276 under Linux?
Me, a bit.. > I got it working with their official drivers with RedHat 7.3. After > updating the kernel using RedHat's up2date it stopped working. I can't > see any updated drivers on promise's site. They don't update that often. > I saw that open source "ataraid" driver is now in the kernel. It should > work with it, but is there any performance difference between them? Not that I know of. They were working with Alan Cox about integrating their driver to the ac tree and then to the 2.4.x official tree. > I also read that this RAID is actually software based, so is there any > real advantage of using it instead of the linux software RAID? Sort of. Lets say that Adaptec won't loose money because of Promise ;) > BTW, How software RAID really affects the system performance comparing > to real hardware RAID? Really depends on the workload and other factors, but hardware raid is almost always better and faster. If you want good IDE hardware raid - go with 3ware. Thanks, Hetz ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
