RE: dmraid: ULI-Raid1 support?

I had posted an earlier message stating that the NVidia raid controller was
linux compatible.

Well it isn't.

While the bios setup raid arrays SHOULD look like a single device per array
they actually still appear as individual devices.

Since the manufacturers either explicitly don't support linux or provide
very little support (i.e. moving from 2.4 to 2.6 linux sabotaged all my raid
arrays), my opinion is that any reliance on unsupported software has long
term maintainability issues.

I have decided to disable all on board raid controllers and just use the
SATA interfaces as single dmraid drives.

This also provides the ability to move disk arrays around to other linux
boxes without having to worry about what controllers to use.

I think embedded raid is really useless because support is spotty and there
is no compatibility standard. 

The raid manufacturers really need to go out of business.

Tedc

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roman v. Gemmeren
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 3:39 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: dmraid: ULI-Raid1 support?

Hi ataraid-list,


i'm wondering if it is possible to get support for the ULI-m5288 RAID
into dmraid? Asus has only binary drivers for RH, Fedora and Suse,
but no source or anything...  I already tried mailing them, but i
couldn't register my mainboard yet (because they messed sth. up with
those serial-numbers) and therefore cannot contact the technical
support..;\

Any help to get my Asus A8R-MVP working with Sata-Raid1 is
appreciated.

THX!

greets,
        Roman v. Gemmeren

-- 
design, v.:
-What you regret not doing later on.

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