On Friday 08 June 2001 20:29, Sam wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am thinking of purchasing the Abit KT7A motherboard with the integrated
> Highpoint RAID controller. However I can't find any RAID section in the
> "supported hardware" page on the site. Is it safe to assume that I won't
> have any problems running Mandrake 8 off a harddisk attached to the
> controller?
>
> Thanks in advance.
The highpoint RAID controller is a winRAID controller. It will control RAIDs
in Windows only (software based, in ROM). However, with the RAID turned off,
it works satisfactorily in linux.
The benefit of using it in linux, as a standard controller, is that linux has
a software RAID which is superior anyway to the firmware from CMD and Promise
and HighPoint. For example, it does not need identical sized disks, and can
assemble a RAID0 volume from pieces of several drives, with a similar
performance boost.
If you can get the same board without the RAID, just with standard IDE
channels, that will work the same in Linux. The Highpoint can work either
way, so you are free to choose.
Civileme
QA Team
