Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-21 Thread Michael George
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 11:48:31AM -0700, Guy Fraser wrote: > Hi > > There was some discussion about this a while back. > > There were some tests done and IIRC the promise controler had better > performance when used as a standard IDE controller using the linux software > raid. Again IIRC the rai

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-21 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi There was some discussion about this a while back. There were some tests done and IIRC the promise controler had better performance when used as a standard IDE controller using the linux software raid. Again IIRC the raid "firmware" on the card actually just enables a BIOS extension and the ra

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-21 Thread Jesse Keating
On Monday 20 January 2003 20:53, Charles A. Crayne uttered: > It is NOT software RAID from the point of view of the linux kernel, and > there is a separate hardware controller for the IDE RAID arrays [which can > be disabled by a physical jumper] than there is for non-RAID IDE drives, > but Peter f

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-21 Thread Charles A. Crayne
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:03:54 -0500 Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :Are you sure that the FastTrack 100 TX2 is actually software RAID? If that's :the case, why wouldn't one just put one drive on each of their MB ATA :controllers and run software RAID on the system? It is NOT software R

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-20 Thread Michael George
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:58:23PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 06:52, Charles A. Crayne wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:02:29 -0500 > > "Peter Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > :I'm never going to get used to the oxymoron IDE RAID :) > > > > If you think that

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-12 Thread Charles A. Crayne
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:24:21 -0500 "Bruce Embrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :From what I remember, Promise provides the install disk for RH 7.2/7.3 :which :allows :you to install the drivers during the installation. In :November they :released :"Partial Open Source" drivers but it appears :you

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-12 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:34:59AM -0500, Peter Larsen wrote: > Why should the OS be concerned about RAID at all? It works best as a hardware >solution. Software is nice for low-end systems without too much disk-io. At least I >can make threads access multiple disks concurrently on software-raid

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 06:52, Charles A. Crayne wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:02:29 -0500 > "Peter Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > :I'm never going to get used to the oxymoron IDE RAID :) > > If you think that "IDE RAID" is an oxymoron, what terms > of abuse do you reserve for "SOFTWARE

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-11 Thread Peter Larsen
Charles A. Crayne wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:02:29 -0500 > "Peter Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm never going to get used to the oxymoron IDE RAID :) > > If you think that "IDE RAID" is an oxymoron, what terms of abuse do > you reserve for "SOFTWARE RAID", which seems to be the o

RE: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-11 Thread Bruce Embrey
rak.o drivers. Btuce Embrey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Peter Larsen Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 9:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100) Samuel Flory wrote: >>

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-11 Thread Charles A. Crayne
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:02:29 -0500 "Peter Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :I'm never going to get used to the oxymoron IDE RAID :) If you think that "IDE RAID" is an oxymoron, what terms of abuse do you reserve for "SOFTWARE RAID", which seems to be the only form of RAID which Linux actually

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-11 Thread Charles A. Crayne
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:30:49 -0500 "Peter Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :Samuel Flory wrote: :>> I now have an Acorp 6A815EPD MainBoard with a Promise 20265 Fasttrak :>> 100 embedded RAID. I have tried to get Redhat 8.0 and 8.1 beta to :>> install onto a RAID 0 partition (striped for speed) t

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-11 Thread Peter Larsen
Samuel Flory wrote: >> I now have an Acorp 6A815EPD MainBoard with a Promise 20265 Fasttrak >> 100 embedded RAID. I have tried to get Redhat 8.0 and 8.1 beta to >> install onto a RAID 0 partition (striped for speed) the installer >> does not see the RAIDcard at all. I can use the (Alt-Ctrl + F2) [

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-10 Thread Samuel Flory
Norman Madden wrote: I now have an Acorp 6A815EPD MainBoard with a Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100 embedded RAID. I have tried to get Redhat 8.0 and 8.1 beta to install onto a RAID 0 partition (striped for speed) the installer does not see the RAIDcard at all. I can use the (Alt-Ctrl + F2) console d