Using RAID0 with Debian

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

  Has anyone used RAID on a fresh woody install recently and would be
  willing to share their thoughts on the process?

  I just bought the Gigabyte GA-7VRXP motherboard (VIA KT333 chipset
  with Promise PDC20276 RAID controller) naively thinking I could set up
  RAID0 on the motherboard (on two IDE drives) and that I could simply
  make a fresh woody install on One Big Disk.

  What was I thinking?

  According to RAID Solutions for Linux [1], I'll need the drivers for
  this controller. Do I? The ATA RAID HOWTO [2] speaks about an ft
  controller that I can obtain, but can I use that with a fresh Debian
  install? In the current 2.4.18 kernel, are the following seemingly
  related modules or settings useful? pdcraid.o, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX

  Otherwise, it seems that using RAID is a nightmare [3] and is more
  trouble than it's worth.


1. http://linas.org/linux/raid.html
2. http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO
3. http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

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