Re: RAID 1 : DEBIAN (WOODY) b2.4 - compatible Parallel ATA disk / compatible hardware RAID 1 controller

From: jim biri (jim.biri_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/31/05

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To: Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.linux-consulting.com>, Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    Hi Alvin (and all),

    Thanks for all the postings. I've got a HighPoint Rocket 133 ATA card
    (see http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/r133.htm for more info) , and
    highpoint release what they call the "Linux Source Code" at:

    http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_r133.htm.

    That page says: "Support Linux kernel version 2.2.x to 2.6.x on x86
    and amd64 platform."

    Now I've tried plugging the card in, and attaching an IDE drive to it,
    but on restart DEBIAN can't see the drive. The cards BIOS pops up so
    it is functionining - so - I don't even know where to start to try to
    load up the "linux source code" drive .....

    I've attached the readme and the linux source - does it sound
    plausible/sensible what they've written?

    Thanks for anyones' help,
    Jim.

    On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 02:23:54 -0800 (PST), Alvin Oga
    <aoga@ns.linux-consulting.com> wrote:
    >
    > hi ya biri
    >
    > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, jim biri wrote:
    >
    > > All I'm lacking now is a known-to-be-reliable ATA disk controller for
    > > software RAID 1 i.e. so can have one drive on one ATA disk controller,
    > > one drive on another.
    >
    > that is the "right way" .. one disk per cable ..
    >
    > all "ata disk controllers" [basically] works ....
    > all "ata disk controllers" support sw raid1, because it doesnt do anything
    > fancy and doesn't know how
    >
    > all sw raid is done in the linux kernel
    >
    > whether sw raid works reliably or not is up to the user who config'd the
    > files and tested enuff and used "good hw" vs "cheap hw"
    > - "reliable" means different things to everybody ..
    >
    > c ya
    > alvin
    >
    > 

    



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