Hardare RAID (0+1) and Linux (Slackware 8.1).

[Federico Voges]

Hi,

AFAIK the only REAL hardware RAID for IDE are the 3ware controllers. 

I have one Soyo MoBo with an HPT370 (RAID 0/1/0+1) and an Intel MoBo with a 
Promise FastTrack 100.

I'd sugest that you buy another cheap ATA100/133 controller (ie: CMD649 
chipset) and make a RAID5 array with the disks with software RAID (there are 
instructions in Bedtime Reading -> RAID). You'll have a 120GB array. COL 
3.1.1 recognizes both controlles as standard IDE controllers. With RedHat 
71./7.2 don't (at least with the Promise controller).

I've reading about the BIOS RAID (HPT/Promise) support for Linux and it's 
pretty much useless (ei: it's not fault tolerant. If one disk fails, your 
server will crash).

Right now, I have to servers running with soft raid (mirroring) without 
problems (both running COL 3.1.1, one of them using XFS).



On S?b 22 Jun 2002 00:39, Myles Green wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a server to replace the system currently hosting my
> mirror of linux-sxs.org and have run into a problem that currently has
> me stumped. Here's a list of the hardware invloved:
>
> Case - Chieftech 26" full tower
> MoBo - Shuttle AK35GT2R w/ onboard HighPoint 370/372 RAID controler
> CPU - Athlon XP 1800+
> RAM - 2 GB Samsung DDR PC2700 (4 x 512MB)
> HDD - 4 x Maxtor 40GB ATA 133 (Liquid)
> CDROM- LG 52x
> Floppy - Panasonic 1.44 MB
> Video - Nvidia TNT2 M64 32MB VRAM
> NIC - D-Link DFE-538TX/R 10/100
>
> I can create a RAID 0+1 setup in the HighPoint BIOS if, and only if, I
> leave the drives jumpered as 'cable select'. If I try to jumper them
> manually it can only see the two slave drives - incorrectly identified
> as having 70+ GB capacity.
>
> Slackware has a bootdisk with the correct drivers for the HighPoint
> chipset which boots up fine and then asks for the 'root disk' (which is
> actually a set of 5 floppies labeled install.1, install.2 etc.), then I
> get to select the keyboard and login as root but after that, all I get
> is screenfulls of scrolling hexidecimal (?) numbers.
>
> Anybody seen this or have any suggestions? I'm all ears...
>
> TIA,