Re: Re: "rock solid" motherboard
Paul wrote:
The Linux kernel does not now support any of the
motherboard chips capable of native RAID mode in the
BIOS.
Not true. Read
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html.
Perhaps you missed the subject matter. The question is why
the ABIT AV8 RAID mode in the BIOS does not work with Linux.
The drivers in the kernel don't control whether the BIOS has
RAID mode enabled or not; that is in the BIOS. Nor was the
original question about raid programs instead of chips.
The ABIT AV8 and my ASUS A8V both have the VIA8237 chip. The
problem with the VIA8237 is the same as all the rest: the
chips are not supported by the kernel in RAID mode. There
are probably people someplace hacking around the kernel
drivers and maybe they will get things working someday.
All disk controllers built into AMD64 motherboards, if they
have RAID capability, are only supported if RAID mode for
the chips is not enabled. Do NOT enable the RAID mode for
the chips in the BIOS or they won't work using the drivers
in the kernel because the drivers were not written to use
the controllers properly if RAID mode was enabled.
Most (maybe all?) of the proprietary raid formats are
supported by the dmraid driver.
Maybe the DiskMapper code is the exception except the chips
are no good anyway. Does anybody use the DiskMapper?
Generally speaking RAID0 doubles throughput for large
writes as data is striped across both volumes, and has
seek times the same as a single drive.
Not for chips on any AMD64 motherboard. This is not about
theory, this is about certain chips and how they work and
they don't work good enough to use their RAID capability.
Read this and weep:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q2/chipset-raid/index.x?pg=28
Paul, what motherboard do you have? How do your disk
controller chips perform?
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