> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Don Casey wrote: > > > Anyone know of people or a forum where they are working on SATA hardware > > RAID drivers and compiling kernels for this. Would like to be able to > > use FC2 with the 2.6 kernel on my servers, but can not get support from > > Adaptec or Promise for this transformation. > > > > Thanx, > > Don Casey > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joel Jaeggli > Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 10:54 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: SATA RAID > > you're better off using linux software raid rather than promise software > raid. > > joelja > > Thanx for the reply Joel, but have found some interesting info out on my own since posting this question. If anyone is interested here are some great links to help with this issue. Seems as though several vendors are marketing their RAID as hardware RAID when in fact it is only software. This is a problem that I was unaware of, and the purpose for using hardware RAID has now been compromised. I did not want to have the extra load on my servers processors, so I was using what was marketed as hardware RAID. Here are some great links. http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html http://tienstra4.flatnet.tudelft.nl/~gerte/gen2dmraid/ http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/ Thanx, Don Casey
