Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

[Darryl Barlow <darrylb@iprimus.com.au>]

Thank you to those who replied.  I've decided to adopt Henrique's suggestion 
and go with Software Raid.  There seems to be little point in persevering 
with the onboard chip if it does not offer better performance.  I've copied 
everything over to hda1,  modified lilo.conf and fstab and verified 
everything works off hda.  I've also printed out the software raid howto.  
Hopefully tonight I will get the chance to setup the array and copy 
everything back.

And thanks, Roberto, for posting the relevant parts of your kernel config.  I 
tried compiling with the necessary modifications but unfortunately it did not 
help.  I'd love to know what the problem was but I was simply spending too 
much time on it.  And after reading Henrique's posts it seems fairly clear 
that standard Linux software raid is preferable.

By the way, I am planning to try an initial chunksize of 32.  Any comments as 
to whether this is appropriate.

regards,

Darryl
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