On Friday 07 December 2001 11:02 pm, Brandon S. Neily wrote:
> Ok People,
>
> I have an ASUS motherboard with built in (Promise) RAID support and i was
> wanting to know if Drake 8.0 Supports this and how i can get it to work
> properly if it does. I have never used RAID in linux, and i need to know
> how i install linux on a system running XP and have support for the RAID.
>
>
> -Thanks-
>
> DARKW0LF
With 8.0 you can pretty well forget it.
So few people know that the promise RAID controller is nothing more than a
BIOS extension chip with some proprietary, secret, copyrighted software.
Look at the Duke of URL site. He was taken in sufficiently by the totally
fake hardware to show how to write a driver from the proprietary RH driver.
Or check www.linux-ide.org for a link to a project to support these so called
hardware RAIDs.
Or look at kernels after 2.4.8-31mdk and you will find support for reading
Windows RAID but happily no support for using the vastly inferior software
RAIDs in linux.
As a matter of fact there is a RAID in linux and it has been around for a
while, in software.
Feature Promise, HPT, CMD Linux Software RAID
RAID styles 0, 1, 0+1 0, 1, 4, 5, 0+1
Extents 1 No limit
Volumes No Logical Volumes
of several drives
Cost in space Yes, drive destroked Dependent on RAIDx
Compat with
Windows Yes No, but can read
after kernel 2.4.9
Basically, some controller manufacturers and board manufacturers are making
money selling these RAIDs representing them as something they are arguably
_not_. If you want a read hardware IDE RAID supported in ANY OS that runs on
a PC, its name is ARCO, and there is a link to it at
http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html
I am really displeased that so many folks are being taken in by this hype.
If my opinion is not enough, then see what Mr. Linux-Ide, Andre Hedrick, the
fellow who slaves to keep up with industry drivers, had to say about it.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=450&lang=en
Sorry to go on a rant, but this one really annoys me. The manufacturers are
so jealous of their bogus IP that they won't provide enough info for us to be
compatible.
Civileme
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