Re: Lsi MegaRAID ATA 133

From: Alexander Dalloz (alexander.dalloz_at_uni-bielefeld.de)
Date: 05/10/04

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    Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 12:11:31 +0200
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    Am Mo, den 10.05.2004 schrieb Rui Romão um 11:56:

    > Hello:
    >
    >
    > I have decided to install FC1 on my server, and make RAID 1 (Mirror). Altought this server
    > has a Lsi Logic MegaRAID ATA 133, and I can´t configure it. I have just send a mail to Lsi
    > Logic, and the response was:
    >
    > "Fedora, being a community project makes it difficult for us to get the
    > support we need when developing drivers so no binary will be compiled for
    > this OS. We have released our source, which should work across all of our
    > intelligent controllers, but the ATA 133-2 controller is non intelligent,
    > meaning it has no firmware and the proprietary RAID algorithms are written
    > into the driver and the source is unable to be released. Therefore there is
    > no planned support for Fedora on this controller."
    >
    > There´s no way to configure RAID on this server (with FC1) with this card?
    >
    > Thank you
    >
    > RR

    As explained several times before here on the list - as well as the LSI
    Logic support states in his mail to you - the controller is no real
    hardware RAID controller. Use software RAID function by Fedora / Linux.
    It requires no external driver and works nearly the same.

    Alexander 

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