[PLUG] 2.4.19 + RAID was: RE: PLUG digest, Vol 1 #822 - 10 msgs

[Michael Luevane]

Ah, then we'll just call it a misunderstanding on my part :)

I wasn't interested in hardware raid because everything I'd read said that
you'd be stuck with the 2.4.18 until Promise came out with a new driver and
things that I had read made it look like it might be a while for a new
driver.

Anyway, it's working, I'm logging in. Next step... LDAP!

-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Johnson <russj at dimstar.net>
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] RE: PLUG digest, Vol 1 #822 - 10 msgs
Reply-To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org

Michael Luevane wrote:

>that said it WAS possible to use software raid with the Promise
>controllers.
>
>
That was never in question, and I'm sorry if my answers gave the
impression that I said that.

My point was that if you are using the hardware raid features of the
Promise card, then you don't need the software raid features of the kernel.

If you are using the software raid features of the kernel, then you are
using the Promise card as a standard EIDE controller, and not a raid
controller. You may or may not see a performance hit by doing it this way.

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