Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:33:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:33:33 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-195-162-81.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.195.162.81]:60432 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:33:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:32:16 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Hedrick To: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Promise RAID controller howto? In-Reply-To: <99q1g2$air$1@forge.intermeta.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > Hi, > > I know, that this is a FAQ and the Promise RAID controller card is not > yet usable as a RAID board under Linux 2.x but is there a way to use > the controller just like the UltraATA 100 controller? It is not a raid board ... it is a raid lie > I know, that "input high == UltraATA core, input low = RAID core" > according to Andre Hedrick but I really don't care about the RAID > core. I want to use this controller to drive JBOD. Wrong, if Promise will opensource the signatures then we map the software raid against that location and use Linux's soft-raid. > Can one do this? The disks need not to be interchangeable to other > controllers. Just be accessible. > > 2.2 solutions preferred, 2.4 ok. > > Regards > Henning > > -- > Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer > INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de > > Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de > D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 1757 Houret Court Fax: 1-408-941-2071 Milpitas, CA 95035 Web: www.aslab.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/