Alan Cox writes:
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 05:14:56PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >The raid card issues go back years actually - AHA hostraid stuff like
> >the IDE raid hasn't been Linux supported, smarter stuff has been well
> >supported.
>
> Well then, so much for Adaptec???
Adaptec hw raid stuff is supported (aacraid etc) but to be honest hardware
Oh, I get it now. Adaptec's Hostraid line isn't really hardware raid, it
still needs host OS support.
Well, it did look like hardware RAID at first (up until the point when I
actually tried to boot Fedora). After enabling RAID, subsequent POST
enumerated a single device, on the lowest SCSI ID of the two drives.
> That still leaves the question of a working SCSI hardware raid
card. I'm
> open to suggestions. Some Googling brings up occasional reports of random
> glitches with software raid; so I'd still prefer a hardware raid solution.
I've got 3ware bits - which work nicely, and aacraid - which works pretty
well although it doesnt like some of the RH kernels. You can pick up
decent aacraid cards (quad channel perc2/qc aka "Obsidian") on ebay.
I can't find SCSI stuff on
3ware.com. They look to be in the business of
ATA RAID only.
Looks like my only option appears to be LSI Megaraid 320-1.
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2140.nptlsmp/kernel/drivers/scsi/megaraid.o
That should work..