Re: [Sheflug] Highpoint RocketRAID 133 card

[Lance Davis <lance [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13 Jul 2003, Matt Fairtlough wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 12:04, Lance Davis wrote:
> 
> thanks for the quick reply, Lance.
> 
> > On 12 Jul 2003, Matt Fairtlough wrote:
> > 
> > > Highpoint RocketRAID 133 card
> > > I understand this is a 2-channel hardware RAID card, probably the
> > > cheapest on the market.  I only need 2 channels though.
> > 
> > Because it is only an ide controller with software raid support .
> 
> Well, the controller is claimed to be an HPT372A UDMA ATA133 RAID Controller
> Sounds like hardware RAID to me, and if not there is something in the
> trade description laws that shouldn't allow them to say that!  Also it
> is marketed as a linux card; since there is software RAID in
> distributions such as SuSE's (is this in the kernel?  I suppose so) it
> would seem odd to market a s/ware RAID controller there.  So I'm
> puzzled.

I must have been given bum information, or it was re a different highpoint 
card.

Does it present the array as a scsi drive to the kernel ???

> > 3ware escalade 2 channel ide - under £100 (+vat)  and works brilliantly - 
> > drivers are in the kernel ...
> 
> sounds good...but how to buy one retail or online?  They seem hard to
> get hold of, unlike the HPT cards.

I can get an oem one for you , but it seems that the 2 channel one only 
supports 2 drives, cos it isnt meant to be reliable to hang 2 drives off 
an ide i/f and then try to hot swap them, whereas the highpoint ones do 
say they support 2 drives per i/f.

Regards
Lance


-- 
uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user. 

___________________________________________________________________

Sheffield Linux User's Group -
http://www.sheflug.co.uk/mailfaq.html

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.