shimi wrote:
After looking up in Tyan's site, and looking in the specs of the MB
(URL: http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigerk8w_spec.html
<http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigerk8w_spec.html%29,> ), I saw
that it contains "Silicon Image Sil3114 SATA Raid Accelerator".
I contacted the store I am planning on buying the machine from, and
asked them wether it's well supported in Linux. I got a weird answer
that "the SATA will work, but you'll have to do the RAID-1 you're
planning to do by software..."
Sounds like a pretty sensible answer.
I also looked in the Kernel configuration menus, and found out that
"Silicon Image" is supported (Device Drivers -> SCSI low-level drivers
-> Serial ATA (SATA) support -> Silicon Image SATA support [or
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL]), however no model names are mentioned there.
That only implies support for the HDD as a SATA device; nothing about
being able to control the Hardware RAID features from inside Linux. From
the recent flames[1] on the OpenBSD list on the issue of Adaptec not
releasing enough information to allow supporting their RAID chipset in
Free operating systems, I gather it's a pretty standard (and sad)
situation where you're lucky if you have some management support for
your Hardware RAID.
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=111118558813932&w=2
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