On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 16:52 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On 06/07/2010 04:43 PM, Craig White wrote: > > BIOS RAID sounds suspiciously like fake RAID which meant that you had to > > load a specific device driver/kernel module just to get Fedora 12 > > installed and that specific driver is not included in the reboot process > > of preupgrade so it won't work. > > That's not quite true. Most of the proprietary "BIOS RAID" (aka > ata-RAID, fake RAID etc.) formats have been supported for quite a long > time now by the dmraid project: > > http://people.redhat.com/heinzm/sw/dmraid/ > > Some of the formats (as is the case with Intel ISW on F13) are now using > MD RAID but it's been quite a while since you had to use non-standard > proprietary drivers or kernel modules to use these things. ---- good to know - mostly I use Fedora for desktop and RHEL or CentOS for servers so I hadn't seen the change but I am generally very careful about which RAID controller I pick for servers. Craig Yes this is Intel fake raid with fedora using mdraid to support it. No special drivers or kernels needed. |
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