Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu + RAID5

["Randy Schmidt" <x@altorg.com>]

So if the card was capable of true hardware raid, the device would
show up by itself and I wouldn't have to mess around with drivers?
What should I be looking for in a card to make sure it is capable of
hardware raid? I am going to be making another raid in the next year
or so and I want to make sure I am looking at the right hardware.

Yeah, I meant the boot drive.

Thanks,
Randy

On 9/25/06, Will Dyson <will.dyson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/24/06, Randy Schmidt <x@altorg.com> wrote:
> > I think I got it straightened out so I wanted to kind of sum up what I
> > found. I decided to not use hardware raid since the card I had didn't
> > really give me the benefits of hardware raid. I also think that the
>
> I just want make it clear here that there is no hardware raid possible
> with this card. There are only two different implementations of
> software-raid, one that is part of the Linux kernel and one that is
> part of the vendor driver.
>
> PS. it appears the vendor (highpoint) is just plain lying when they
> claim that the hpt374 driver is open-source. The download contains two
> precompiled binary object files that get linked into the final driver.
>
> > I'm so releived it's working! I had been working on it off and on for
> > a month or so. There is only one other question I have. What happens
> > if the drive I have linux installed on takes a crap? Is it just a
> > matter of setting up the raid again and it will all work and my data
> > will be intact?
>
> Not sure I understand. By "the drive I have linux installed on", do
> you mean the drive that you boot from? If so, the answer is Yes. You
> can test this procedure by booting from the Ubuntu LiveCD and
> activating your raid from within that environment.
>
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