Re: State of RAID (and the infamous FastTrak100 card)

2001-03-19 Thread Phil Edwards
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:27:14PM +0100, Jakob Østergaard wrote: > However, 2.4 is out and doesn't need patching, and I should probably update the > howto to reflect that. But still, most of what's in the HOWTO is as correct as > it can be. Okay, I might give that a try. I'm still scared of 2.

Re: State of RAID (and the infamous FastTrak100 card)

2001-03-15 Thread Thomas Dodd
Wilfried Weissmann wrote: > > Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > > So... am I just begging for pain if I try to install, say, a stock RH7 > > > on a machine with the FastTrak100 doing it's little RAID0/JBOD thing? > > > If it requires this machine to always boot from a floppy because the driver > > > ca

Re: State of RAID (and the infamous FastTrak100 card)

2001-03-15 Thread Wilfried Weissmann
Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > So... am I just begging for pain if I try to install, say, a stock RH7 > > on a machine with the FastTrak100 doing it's little RAID0/JBOD thing? > > If it requires this machine to always boot from a floppy because the driver > > cannot be linked into the kernel, well, I

Re: State of RAID (and the infamous FastTrak100 card)

2001-03-14 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:58:01PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: > [I am not subscribed at the moment (don't ask :), so please cc me.] > > A few months ago there was a brief discussion about the FastTrak100 card > and the driver that Promise provides, and just what all can (technically) > be done.