Re: Help with Fasttrack/100 Raid on Linux

Wilfried Weissmann (Wilfried.Weissmann@gmx.at)
Mon, 16 Apr 2001 22:33:36 +0200

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> In article <3AD6B422.EEC092F0@ftel.co.uk> you wrote:
> > Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> > However as far as I can see everyone who has a FastTrak which is "stuck"
> > in RAID mode[1] would be happy if it worked as a normal IDE controller
> > in Linux, which is (usually?) not the case - eg on the MSI board where
> > only the first channel is seen.
>
> I have a patch to work around that. However the better solution would be to
> have a native driver for the raid; I plan to start working on that next
> week...

I am doing the same for the HighPoint-Tech 370 (talking about the RAID driver). Disk-striping is
working so far. My code is based on the kernel patches for MDs from Neil Brown. I created an own
RAID-personality for the module.
When I looked at the FreeBSD implementation I had the idea of making a "supermodule" which could
contain serveral IDE-RAID drivers (e.g.: Proise FastTrack + HPT370). There would be a super
personality for ATA-RAID and several low-level drivers for the individual controllers.

Interrested? Ideas? Hints, Tips, ...? Wanna team up? <8)

>
> Greetings,
> Arjan van de Ven

regards,
Wilfried

PS: An uppercase THANX goes to Nail Brown!

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