-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeroen Lankheet Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 1:39 AM To: Fedora Subject: Where's the hardware compatibility list? Hi there, I need to upgrade from RH7.3 either to RH9 or to Fedora. I base my decision on the presence of HPT370 RAID support. RH9 has a 3rd party driver. But i cannot find any information on Fedora RAID support, or any other hardware support. Could anyone please tell me where it is? Jeroen Lankheet -- Jeroen, a number of people have already recommended that you avoid using the HPT370 RAID functionality and I won't argue with that. I have an add-in HPT370 PCI card in my system and I use Fedora's software striping + parity (I forget which RAID level that is) because Linux will recognize that controller as a plain old IDE controller. Now, if you want to boot your system from that RAID device, I think that another message has explained why that may be more of a pain than it's worth, but if you are looking to boot from a single drive and use the RAID array for a separate partition(s), I would recommend avoiding the Highpoint drivers altogether and just using Linux's software RAID. You'll find that the performance of Fedora's RAID implementation is superior to that of Highpoint. Or, if nothing else, you can at least add up to four more drives to your system without using RAID. Good luck! Drew Drew Dunn Simulation Engineer Micron Technology, Inc. "The Future of Memory" (208)368-2882
