Re: [Sheflug] Highpoint RocketRAID 133 card

[Jonathan <jonathan [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matt Fairtlough wrote:
> 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
And Tom's Hardware seems to imply it is hardware also:

http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20011023/

- J


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