Re: dmraid: ULI-Raid1 support?

On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 05:33:32PM +0200, Roman v. Gemmeren wrote:
> Hallo ted,
> 
> Am Saturday, September 16, 2006, 4:51:47 PM, schrieben Sie:
> 
> thx for the reply, i had the raid working under nforce4 with dmraid just fine, but
> the board crashed, thats why i'm stuck with this new board now..
> 
> As far as i know most of the onboard Raid Controllers are just some
> coverup for a software raid, since you need the drivers (e.g. for
> winxp).

Yes.

> 
> I can use both sata drives fine, but not as raid, because no driver
> AND not (yet) supported by dmraid.
> 
> The dmraid-site told me to post to this list. I would be willing to
> test and provide as much assistance as possible.
> 
> However, i will continue trying to bug the Asus support, until i get a
> definitive answer... at least now (after ~3 weeks and 3 requests) i
> got an response about the issue with registering my mainboard...;\

Hrm, I'ld better have the metadata specs to make a dmraid
ULI metadata format handler happen.

Regards,
Heinz

> 
> > 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
> 
> greets,
>         Roman v. Gemmeren
> 
> -- 
> I just had a NOSE JOB!!
> 
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