Re: My mobo with IDE RAID died...what are my linux compatible options?
From: spodosaurus (spodosaurus_at__yahoo_.com)
Date: 06/16/05
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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:09:09 +0800
spodosaurus wrote:
> spodosaurus wrote:
>
>> Patrick J. McLaughlin Jr. wrote:
>>
>>>> The tx2000 is a hardware raid controller, yes? I want something
>>>> completely transparent to the OS, not something that needs drivers
>>>> to run.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Ari
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Then I would pass on the tx 2000
>>> I have read some negative posts on news groups about this controller and
>>> it's Linux driver. I didn't try to get the tx 2000 working with Linux
>>> but
>>> I was able to plug my RAID 0 drives into it from my old Gigabyte
>>> board and
>>> it found the RAID 0 worked great until I found out why they call it
>>> "F"disk, but as Paul Harvey would say, that's another story.
>>>
>>> Good Luck Ari and all in Linuxland,
>>> Pat
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the reply, Pat. I really miss my old board. I installed
>> linux onto one disk and got it running smoothly. I rebooted and
>> enabled RAID 1 and then configured the 'disk' from within linux.
>> Everything was seemless. There was never any kudzu detecting new
>> hardware and to my knowledge no drivers were installed. The system saw
>> the disk as hdg, and that was it.
>>
>> Ari
>>
>>
>
> Promise replied to my email saying that they have not released 2.6x
> kernel drivers.
>
> Apparently, despite it's higer pricetag than other less expensive
> software RAID cards, it is just that - a basic software RAID card (as
> has already been pointed out):
>
> "After doing some additional research on Google, I made the discovery that
> the Promise TX 2000 isn't really a hardware Raid controller at all. It
> is an
> IDE controller that has a bios that writes some array configuration data.
> The driver provides the actual raid functionality. This is evidently why
> promise will not release their driver source into the kernel. Their driver
> provides the raid."
>
> http://slug.archives.nks.net/List/slug.archive.0407/0115.html
>
> I might as well just buy a cheap skymaster or ST-labs card with an ITE
> or SiliconImage chip and use linux's software RAID. I just need to get
> one of those cards to actually work: my HA66 card that I was going to
> use the software RAID option with won't even allow my new motherboard to
> reach the boot stage, even with no drives attached (this is covered in
> more detail in a more recent thread here).
>
> Ari
>
Okay, I cannot afford this card, but I cannot afford to be without RAID
any longer either:
http://www.scorptec.com.au/?prdid=00015561
True hardware RAID. I'll do some more research and see what's up. My
other option is to buy another (HA66 not working) IDE expansion card and
use linux software RAID.
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