Re: [Sheflug] Highpoint RocketRAID 133 card

[Lance Davis <lance [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Gary Stimson wrote:

> I've been away for a few days and dealt with my email by skim-reading and 
> merry use of the delete key, so sorry if this thread has ended.
> 
> I'm using a Highpoint RocketRaid 404 card, which uses the next chip up from 
> the 133 card. The highpoint chipsets only give you extra IDE channels. All 
> of the RAID stuff is done in software. The Highpoint Linux drivers on their 
> web site are semi-proprietary rubbish. However, Linux has some other 
> support for the chipset (the Redhat 9.0 install recognised the highpoint 
> chips OK).
> 
> Don't bother with Highpoint's own drivers. Instead use the linux drivers. 
> You'll then have some extra IDE channels. I'm using Linux's own software 
> RAID with these and it's working fine.

This is what I thought regarding those cards, others think differently 
....

Strange that people seem to think that the raid confiuguration etc is done 
by the raid bios ???

The 3ware cards I can vouch for being true hardware ide raid.

Lance
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