Re: [Sheflug] Highpoint RocketRAID 133 card

[Matt Fairtlough <matt [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 21:33, Lance Davis wrote:
> 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).
> >
> 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 ???

but some of the websites I've seen for the HPT404 have screenshots of
raid configuration being done in bios!  There is a bios chip on the
HPT404 which you can see in the screenshots, e.g. 
http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/CCAM/hpt374_raid.shtml

I don't see any reason you couldn't use the channels as ordinary IDE
channels and use software RAID on top (though as far as I can tell that
is exactly what my onboard RAID does not allow me to do), but it must
also be possible to build a RAID array in the bios and use that in linux
as if it were a single disk.

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