[wplug] IDE RAID controller feedback

[Jim LaSalle]

I've ordered the 3ware Escalade 7500-4LP. Should be fun.

jsbillings at mac.com wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 08:38, Jim LaSalle wrote:
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>>Have IDE hardware RAID controllers come of age? Comments on Linux 
>>friendly IDE RAID controllers are welcome.
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>>Thanks.
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>I've tested both Promise and Highpoint IDE raid controllers, and neither
>really offers true hardware raid.  Both are basically an incremental
>step above software raid, the CPU still does the real work.  I've used
>one of the Promise external IDE units, and it was kind of neat, but with
>a horrible interface.  It basically assumed you wanted to use it with
>windows, and any other OS required that you configure it through a
>serial port.  But at least it was true hardware RAID.
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>As Donald Vanco said, if you want to use and IDE Raid controller, be
>sure to stick with standard distro kernels, because they like to release
>precompiled binaries for specific release kernels.  Since we use our own
>custom kernels, this is a pain.
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>Highpoint has an "Open Source" driver release, but it looks like it's
>not really the source, but something like a kernel-independant binary
>with enough code to generate a module from this binary.
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