Where's the hardware compatibility list?

[Jeroen Lankheet]

Thanks Marian,

I will insert a third disk to put FC1 on and try the same trick. I will keep
you informed.

Regards,
Jeroen.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Marian POPESCU
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 3:40 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Where's the hardware compatibility list?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an ABIT KR7A-RAID with HPT372 controller.
> I succesfully tried to build and install the kernel module driver from
> source: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt3xx-opensource-v131.tgz
>
> I installed as well the Raid Manager and I can see the 2 HDDs connected on
> the controller as a RAID 1 disc.
>
> Actually my system (RH9 and now FC1) is installed on a third disc (Primary
> Master), but on the RAID disc I have several NTFS partitions that are
> easily accessible. So, it works. But I cannot guarantee that there will
> not be error while writing on the discs (I have not tried that yet).
>
> HTH,
> Marian
>
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:48:54 +0100, Jeroen Lankheet wrote:
>
> >>On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 22:39, Jeroen Lankheet wrote:
> >>> Hi there,
> >>>
> >>> I need to upgrade from RH7.3 either to RH9 or to Fedora. I base my
> > decision
> >>> on the presence of HPT370 RAID support. RH9 has a 3rd party
> driver. But i
> >>> cannot find any information on Fedora RAID support, or any
> other hardware
> >>> support.
> >>>
> >>> Could anyone please tell me where it is?
> >>
> >>Always the recommendation is to avoid HPT or Promise RAID for several
> >>good reasons:
> >>
> >>1) It doesn't gain you much of any real performance.  If you use RAID-0,
> >>some synthetic benchmarks show better thruput, but real-world
> >>Re: Where's the hardware compatibility list?Re: Where's the hardware Re:
> > Where's >the hardware compatibility list?
> >>compatibility list?applications are not much better.
> >>2) It isn't real hardware RAID.  It is poorly implemented software RAID
> >>done by the drivers.  Real software RAID by the Linux or Windows
> >>operating system tends to have greater performance and reliability.
> >>3) If you rely on the 3rd party binary-only drivers from Promise or HPT,
> >>you are absolutely stuck in upgrading.  To make matters worse sometimes
> >>those binary-only drivers have been unstable, and the community or RH
> >>will cannot and will not support you.  You need to rely on the company's
> >>support, and in most cases they ignore you.
> >>4) It is *possible* to get it running using the /dev/ataraid devices for
> >>the root filesystem, but only if you install to a single disk and copy
> >>everything over manually and redo the GRUB or lilo boot loader.  It
> >>isn't worth the effort however because this makes it a pain in the butt
> >>to upgrade, and you don't gain much of any real performance increase.
> >>
> >>Maybe 2 years ago I used to do #4, but it was too much of a pain so I
> >>switched back to single disks.
> >>
> >>Warren
> >
> > -----------------------
> >
> > Thanks for the warnings.
> > If Abit didn't like the performance of the HPT370 chip, then why bother
> > putting it in my KT7-RAID mainboard? Is it because of the term
> RAID sounding
> > fast?
> > It looks from the change logs that i will have to go beyond
> kernel 2.4.18
> > because of a lot of USB changes. So i will try to upgrade the
> latest kernel
> > and load the HPT370 driver module. If that doesn't work, i'm
> going to say
> > farewell to my semi-RAID.
> > I still consider myself a newbie and don't know anything about software
> > RAID.
> >
> > Jeroen.
>
>
>
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