Re: Status of Adaptec Hostraid support.

[Sam Varshavchik <mrsam courier-mta com>]

Alan Cox writes:

> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 05:14:56PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > >The raid card issues go back years actually - AHA hostraid stuff like
> > >the IDE raid hasn't been Linux supported, smarter stuff has been well
> > >supported.
> >
> > Well then, so much for Adaptec???
>
> Adaptec hw raid stuff is supported (aacraid etc) but to be honest hardware

Oh, I get it now.  Adaptec's Hostraid line isn't really hardware raid, it 
still needs host OS support.

Well, it did look like hardware RAID at first (up until the point when I 
actually tried to boot Fedora).  After enabling RAID, subsequent POST 
enumerated a single device, on the lowest SCSI ID of the two drives.

> > That still leaves the question of a working SCSI hardware raid card.  I'm
> > open to suggestions.  Some Googling brings up occasional reports of random
> > glitches with software raid; so I'd still prefer a hardware raid solution.
>
> I've got 3ware bits - which work nicely, and aacraid - which works pretty
> well although it doesnt like some of the RH kernels. You can pick up
> decent aacraid cards (quad channel perc2/qc aka "Obsidian") on ebay.

I can't find SCSI stuff on 3ware.com.  They look to be in the business of 
ATA RAID only.

Looks like my only option appears to be LSI Megaraid 320-1.

/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2140.nptlsmp/kernel/drivers/scsi/megaraid.o

That should work..

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