adrian olsson wrote: >hi. >i have an Abit BE6II Raid mainboard and i dont get it to run properly under >windows XP do u know where i can find drivers for XP to it? >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gregorio P�rez Aguilera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 4:11 PM >Subject: [newbie] Abit KT7 Raid mainboard with integrated HPT370 raid >controller and Mandrake 8.2 > > >>Hi, >>I have an Abit KT-7 Raid mainboard with an integrated HPT370 IDE raid >>controller made by Highpoint and I never managed to make my 2 hard >>drives to work under Mandrake Linux (8.2 and prior versions). >>In the Highpoint site there is the drivers for Caldera, SuSe, Turbo >>Linux, RedHat and FreeBSD, but not for Mandrake. See the >>http://www.highpoint-tech.com/370drivers_down.htm page. >>Does anyone managed to make it run under Mandrake? >>Does anyone have/had my same problem? >> >>I tried to contact Highpoint via e-mail a few times, but I never got a >>reply... Maybe whe can join and send a petition (a polite one ;-) ) to >>get support for Mandrake ... >> >>I have been searching for a solution for 1 year or so and I didn't find >>any solution. >> >> >>Regards, >>Gregorio >> >>PD: Why these distribution lists are so slow?? >>PD2: This is my second repost and it never get published. What is >>happening??? >>PD3: Yet another repost... this message was returned to me!! :-( >>PD4: Yet another repost... from another e-mail >> First of all, the ABIT and other boards with built-in IDE RAID are fake. It is not a hardware RAID but a software RAID, secret and proprietary. Its principal advantage is that WINDOWS can use a software RAID with it, because Windows has no such capability.
Linux software RAID will work fine using the controller in straight IDE mode. The only difficulty is that a Windows RAID will have to leave room on the disks to set it up, not grab the whole of both disks in one giant RAID extent. There are provisions in the kernel to recognize and read. Setting up Linux software RAID (which is much more powerful and flexible) can be done at install time with diskdrake. Just select linux software RAID for each partition you want to RAID and then once you have made all the partitions on all the drive(s) you want, you can add them to a RAID partition or several RAID partitions, of types RAID 0, RAID1, RAID4 or RAID5. I have some RAID0 partitions that cover two ude and two SCSI drives and some RAID5 partitions that cover different areas of those same drives (try to do that with a fake hardware controller). OK so the compatibility was totally unnecessary except to read Windows RAIDs. Nevertheless, some folks did start a project to work with these controllers... Go here and you will find the link to the project and a lot of other information: http://www.linux-ide.org (Click on supported chipsets) And for more information directly from Mr. linux-ide himself, Andre Hedrick, check this link: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=450&lang=en And don't be mad at yourself. There are more marketeers in the computer industry than engineers by a lot, and they sell this stuff as what it is NOT. Civileme >>
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