Re: [Sheflug] ide raid card

[Gary Stimson <gary [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've got a RocketRAID404 from www.scan.co.uk
Its Highpoint chipset is supported by newer kernels and the Redhat 9.0 
installer recognises it. It is software RAID. which really means I just 
bought 4 more IDE pairs :-( I'm guessing that the Maplin card is also a 
Highpoint chipset because I think they're the cheapest chips.

After reading around, I decided not to bother with the Highpoint drivers, 
which are reputed to be semi-proprietary and rather dodgy. Instead, I'm 
just using the card as extra IDE channels and running Linux's excellent 
software RAID on it. I tried running it without one drive, then 
re-inserting the drive. Linux happily got on with rebuilding the outdated 
array in the background... nice!

Personally I'd recommend you get some more extra IDE channels with a 
supported chipset and use linux's software RAID.

Gary

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