Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261661AbVE3SHT (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 14:07:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261666AbVE3SGD (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 14:06:03 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:25067 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261667AbVE3SFD (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 14:05:03 -0400 Message-ID: <429B55CC.1060505@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 14:05:00 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Sipek CC: Clemente Aguiar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC-79xx HostRaid References: <6A0C419392D7BA45BD141D0BA4F253C776F1@loureiro.madeiratecnopolo.pt> <20050530172105.GA15253@havoc.gtf.org> <20050530180156.GA32606@optonline.net> In-Reply-To: <20050530180156.GA32606@optonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1100 Lines: 34 Jeff Sipek wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 01:21:05PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:13:03PM +0100, Clemente Aguiar wrote: >> >>>Hello, >>> >>>We have acquired some IBM xServers which have an integrated raid controller >>>based on the Adaptec AIC-79xx U320 SCSI controller (called HostRaid). >>> >>>Is there already support for HostRaid? Are there drivers for it? >>>>From which kernel version and where do I find it in the config? >> >>HostRaid is just software RAID; you can ignore it and let Linux use the >>underlying SCSI devices via the standard aic79xx driver. > > > As far as I know, it is software raid done much closer to the hw than > the linux sw raid (md). software RAID is software RAID. It makes no difference whether you embed the RAID software in the Adaptec driver or make it a separate module. Jeff - 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/