Adapted 1200A PCI Raid Controller

Mon May 17 11:57:48 PDT 2004

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, James McDonald wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have just come into possession of an Adaptec 1200A Raid 0/1 Controller.
>
> I would like to use it on my 1 GHz Athlon RH9 2.6 kernel box.
>
> I am very unfamiliar with raid card config under linux. This card uses A HPT370A chipset (Highpoint) which appears to be supported in the kernel. But as far as setting up the controller and or getting it to boot from the controller I have no idea.
>
> Anyone have any weblinks etc that they have found useful. If you have specific Adaptec 1200A stuff that would be great.

Your BIOS would need to be capable of booting from the card/controller.
RAID0 is one big logical drive, RAID1 is mirroring drives.

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