I have an MSI KT3 Ultra motherboard with the basic onboard Promise Fasttrack 133 Lite, and Raid 1 works fine in Fedora once you create an initrd with the ataraid and pdcraid modules in it. I know this is software raid, but everything I read about it indicates that the Promise supplied driver is as well. The driver is claimed to do striped reading, so you get read benefit similar to running Raid 0, and the data security of Raid 1. Just remember to mount the Raid devices in fstab, and definitely avoid writing to the ide devices directly (in my case hdc and hde), otherwise the disks are out of sync, and because of the striped reading you will quickly run into serious problems (as well as defeating the data security aspect of the raid array). If you have money to spend my googling indicates that the 3Ware cards works well and offer real hardware raid. I simply used what I had - I value my data and performance is quite adequate for my need. Regards Hennie -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rob Freeman Sent: 30 December 2003 4:53 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Raid card that works in Fedora I am looking into building out a new fedora box for my house, but I want to find an IDE raid card that works with fedora. On my older RH9 box, I have a promise raid card, but the drivers do not work with fedora, and after talking to promise, they do not plan on releasing drivers for fedora. I am just looking to mirror 2 drives together. Has anyone had good luck getting their IDE raid cards working with fedora and could suggest a decent card to get? Thanks Rob IMPORTANT - THIS E-MAIL AND THE INFORMATION THAT IT CONTAINS, MAY BE CONFIDENTIAL, LEGALLY PRIVILEGED AND PROTECTED BY LAW. ACCESS BY THE INTENDED RECIPIENT ONLY IS AUTHORISED. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information onto any medium. Copyright in this e-mail and its attachments belongs to EDS South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
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