Support fot ULi (ALI or nVidia?) RAIDs
Heinz Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at redhat.com
Thu Apr 6 08:15:03 UTC 2006
Hi Alex,
does ULi come with a different metadata format spec (which I assume) ?
If it does, can you provide it to me so that I can (or help you) implement
a respective dmraid metadata format handler for that platform ?
Regards,
Heinz
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:30:06PM -0500, Alex Ryabtsev wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 14:09 -0500, Dan wrote:
> > Alex Ryabtsev wrote:
> > > Probably I am missing something or miisunderstanding...
> > >
> > > I think I saw discussion regarding support for ULi chipsets (like
> > > M5287/M5288) and even RAID5 there.
> > >
> > > Please clarify my thoughts - is something like this coming into the way?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Alex
> > >
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> > I'm not sure about RAID5, but dmraid for RAID1 and RAID0 (at least, it's
> > working fine for 0 for me, and RAID1 is easier, so I would assume both)
> > is working flawlessly in FC5. I don't know whether dmraid supports
> > ALi/ULi, but it does support NVRAID.
> > -Dan
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>
> Perhaps I was not clear on subject. Of course it works with nvraid (it
> is stated in readme file) and I know it is works in general (I am using
> it with embedded Promise controller on A7V). The question was - is there
> any support (or planned or in development or...) for ULi which is in
> fact part of ULi 1735 southbridge. If there is no - how I, as the owner
> of mentioned ULi controller can help? And finally is there way or, once
> again plans, to support RAID5 introduced there and in nVidia chipsets?
> As a note: as I understood - this motherboard (A8R32-MVP) can even boot
> from RAID5, despite it is as somebody noted - shraid (soft/hard
> raid ;-))
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
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