Thanks Marian, I will insert a third disk to put FC1 on and try the same trick. I will keep you informed. Regards, Jeroen. > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Marian POPESCU > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 3:40 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Where's the hardware compatibility list? > > > Hi, > > I have an ABIT KR7A-RAID with HPT372 controller. > I succesfully tried to build and install the kernel module driver from > source: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt3xx-opensource-v131.tgz > > I installed as well the Raid Manager and I can see the 2 HDDs connected on > the controller as a RAID 1 disc. > > Actually my system (RH9 and now FC1) is installed on a third disc (Primary > Master), but on the RAID disc I have several NTFS partitions that are > easily accessible. So, it works. But I cannot guarantee that there will > not be error while writing on the discs (I have not tried that yet). > > HTH, > Marian > > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:48:54 +0100, Jeroen Lankheet wrote: > > >>On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 22:39, Jeroen Lankheet wrote: > >>> 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? > >> > >>Always the recommendation is to avoid HPT or Promise RAID for several > >>good reasons: > >> > >>1) It doesn't gain you much of any real performance. If you use RAID-0, > >>some synthetic benchmarks show better thruput, but real-world > >>Re: Where's the hardware compatibility list?Re: Where's the hardware Re: > > Where's >the hardware compatibility list? > >>compatibility list?applications are not much better. > >>2) It isn't real hardware RAID. It is poorly implemented software RAID > >>done by the drivers. Real software RAID by the Linux or Windows > >>operating system tends to have greater performance and reliability. > >>3) If you rely on the 3rd party binary-only drivers from Promise or HPT, > >>you are absolutely stuck in upgrading. To make matters worse sometimes > >>those binary-only drivers have been unstable, and the community or RH > >>will cannot and will not support you. You need to rely on the company's > >>support, and in most cases they ignore you. > >>4) It is *possible* to get it running using the /dev/ataraid devices for > >>the root filesystem, but only if you install to a single disk and copy > >>everything over manually and redo the GRUB or lilo boot loader. It > >>isn't worth the effort however because this makes it a pain in the butt > >>to upgrade, and you don't gain much of any real performance increase. > >> > >>Maybe 2 years ago I used to do #4, but it was too much of a pain so I > >>switched back to single disks. > >> > >>Warren > > > > ----------------------- > > > > Thanks for the warnings. > > If Abit didn't like the performance of the HPT370 chip, then why bother > > putting it in my KT7-RAID mainboard? Is it because of the term > RAID sounding > > fast? > > It looks from the change logs that i will have to go beyond > kernel 2.4.18 > > because of a lot of USB changes. So i will try to upgrade the > latest kernel > > and load the HPT370 driver module. If that doesn't work, i'm > going to say > > farewell to my semi-RAID. > > I still consider myself a newbie and don't know anything about software > > RAID. > > > > Jeroen. > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
