dmraid: ULI-Raid1 support?
Roman v. Gemmeren
lists at HasNoName.de
Sat Sep 16 15:33:32 UTC 2006
Hallo ted,
Am Saturday, September 16, 2006, 4:51:47 PM, schrieben Sie:
thx for the reply, i had the raid working under nforce4 with dmraid just fine, but
the board crashed, thats why i'm stuck with this new board now..
As far as i know most of the onboard Raid Controllers are just some
coverup for a software raid, since you need the drivers (e.g. for
winxp).
I can use both sata drives fine, but not as raid, because no driver
AND not (yet) supported by dmraid.
The dmraid-site told me to post to this list. I would be willing to
test and provide as much assistance as possible.
However, i will continue trying to bug the Asus support, until i get a
definitive answer... at least now (after ~3 weeks and 3 requests) i
got an response about the issue with registering my mainboard...;\
> I had posted an earlier message stating that the NVidia raid controller was
> linux compatible.
> Well it isn't.
> While the bios setup raid arrays SHOULD look like a single device per array
> they actually still appear as individual devices.
> Since the manufacturers either explicitly don't support linux or provide
> very little support (i.e. moving from 2.4 to 2.6 linux sabotaged all my raid
> arrays), my opinion is that any reliance on unsupported software has long
> term maintainability issues.
> I have decided to disable all on board raid controllers and just use the
> SATA interfaces as single dmraid drives.
> This also provides the ability to move disk arrays around to other linux
> boxes without having to worry about what controllers to use.
> I think embedded raid is really useless because support is spotty and there
> is no compatibility standard.
> The raid manufacturers really need to go out of business.
> Tedc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ataraid-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:ataraid-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Roman v. Gemmeren
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 3:39 AM
> To: ataraid-list at redhat.com
> Subject: dmraid: ULI-Raid1 support?
> Hi ataraid-list,
> i'm wondering if it is possible to get support for the ULI-m5288 RAID
> into dmraid? Asus has only binary drivers for RH, Fedora and Suse,
> but no source or anything... I already tried mailing them, but i
> couldn't register my mainboard yet (because they messed sth. up with
> those serial-numbers) and therefore cannot contact the technical
> support..;\
> Any help to get my Asus A8R-MVP working with Sata-Raid1 is
> appreciated.
> THX!
> greets,
> Roman v. Gemmeren
greets,
Roman v. Gemmeren
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