[olug] IDE Hardware RAID

[Brandon Lederer]

If your RAID card is TRUE Hardware you will have to configure the MIRROR
from a BIOS on the chip / card.  Then it will show up as ataraid.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim V - DZ [mailto:iceburn at dangerzone.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:20 PM
To: 'Omaha Linux User Group'
Subject: RE: [olug] IDE Hardware RAID


n/m-

Some Gigabyte motherboards have some built in Promise "lite" Raid
controllers.  They have Linux drivers posted at

http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_RAID.htm 

The have some beta drivers for the promise versions (inc the 20276 I
think) on their board.  Since you haven't got anything installed yet,
you might want to try that.

If you know the "Friendly name" of you Raid Controller you might want to
poke around promise.com.  They have Red Hat drivers from some chips.

Something like-
http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=10&c
ategory=driver&os=3


-t



-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
neal rauhauser 402-301-9555
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:11 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] IDE Hardware RAID



  I had a Promise ATA66 card with two 27 gig drives and fbsd 4.x -
installed fine, worked for shit when I tested it - first drive good,
second drive paperweight.

 YMMV ... I am still using the promise controller and they changed the
device name 4.6=>4.7 which gave me 50% of all the gray hair I have right
now :-(



Mike Peterson wrote:
> 
> I have a new system with built-in Promise RAID.
> 
> Mandrake 9.1 does not have drivers for Promise 20267 built-in IDE
RAID.
> 
> Slackware 9 installs great but sees each drive separately and not as
one mirror drive.
> 
> Redhat 9 installs great but sees each drive separately and not as one
mirror drive.
> 
> FreeBSD 5.1 sees the drives but will not install.
> 
> Windows XP Pro works great and sees the mirror.
> 
> Knoppix 3.2 June release sees the drives as separate and not mirrored.
> 
> I plan to run Redhat Enterprise ES 2.1 on the system.
> The system CD claims to have the drivers.
> 
> I will post an update once I get it working.
> 
> I thought about putting a 3ware card in the system.
> As per the 3ware site they only support up to Redhat 8 at present.
> 
> I have had good luck with ARCO IDE RAID.
> But the last card I got which was version 2 was slower than version 1.
> The version 1 would only support 30 GB drives max.
> That is what I have it running with.
> 
> The version 2 card will support at least 40 GB drives that I have it
running on.
> 
> Has anyone worked with any other IDE Hardware RAID?
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