RE: [Sheflug] Highpoint RocketRAID 133 card

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan [mailto:jonathan [at] sirtis.org.uk] 
> Sent: 17 July 2003 12:47
> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Highpoint RocketRAID 133 card
> 
> 
> 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/

>From memory setting up our SQL server last year with on-board HPT raid,
it's a mixture of BIOS and OS-level stuff. Part of the setup is
performed in the bios and the final mirroring and on-going monitoring is
done using some X software (certainly when I did ours that's what I
did).

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D
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