[ale] Hot Point RAID and Linux

[James P. Kinney III]

Highpoint raid controllers (372) ARE supported but it requires some
installation effort.

The highpoint site has a series of bootable/installable floppy images to
make the hardware raid drive show as a single drive. It does not support
raid 5, only raid 1, 0 and 1/0.

The kernel module is not GPL'ed and it requires a closed source library
to build. The library is available for free (as is all the other needed
bits and bytes) from their website. They also have an X based app that
allows config and control of the raid array.

I built a raid 1/0 box with screaming fast IDE drives and the HPT-372
controller. During a drive sync, it ran at a sustained 32.5 MB/s. That
is nearly bus speed. Client is happy.

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 09:35, sangell at nan.net wrote:
> Is anyone using a Hot Point IDE RAID Controller and Linux? I am wanting to
> set up a RH 7.3 box and would like the added performance of RAID 0. In the
> past I have tried this with SCSI RAID Controllers and linux saw the array
> as seperate drives, not as an array. Just wondered if it would see the
> array under IDE or if seperate drives would still be seen. I do not want to
> use software raid!
> 
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