Re: [Sheflug] Linux & RAID

[Richard Stevenson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2003, Alex Hudson wrote:

> (you're likely to get flamed to Bognor for posting in HTML, my
> commiserations in advance :P )

Must get my Sendmail header checks for text/html and multipart/alternative
reinstated :P

> On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 19:11, Netsonic wrote:
>
> > The problem, as I later discovered is not mounting the NTFS system,
> > but the fact it was located on a Promise RAID controller. The promise
> > site has no downloads and everything Ive found on the subject is along
> > the lines of Promise not releasing the code for a decent driver to be
> > developed.
>
> Promise will never be supported fully under Linux, unless Promise sort
> themselves out. The guy who would develop the driver would have to sign
> Satan's own NDA to get specs out of them, and he has more sense than
> that. If you want to run Linux, don't buy Promise, essentially.
> Hopefully that message will make them change their mind!

As I understand it, a further problem with the Promise RAID cards is that
they aren't really RAID cards - the RAID stuff is done in the driver; the
card itself is really just a (collection of) fast IDE controller(s).  All
very ugly.  I've been thinking about a 3ware RAID card myself, but they're
damnably hard to find in .nz.  The distributor don't bother replying to
queries :\

Must go see if I can find a Highpoint distributor and read up on their
cards.

Regards

Richard


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