Topic: HPT 370 RAID Controller

[Vartanian]

Hello

Does anyone had any success installing a High Point HPT 370 RAID IDE controller on an e-smith server ?
I don't want to install e-smith on the RAID partition but rather put my critical data on it.
It seems the version of kernel doesn't match and I didn't find any source code I could recompile for that card.
Thanx for any help.

Laurent

[Kelvin]

Hi Laurent,

This has been brought up many times before. It's a shame about the kernel version and as someone suggested, we should all e-mail highpoint and ask them to release the source so that we can compile a working driver ourselves. I have asked them before and got knocked back. Perhaps, if more of us wrote in, we might get somewhere.

Kelvin

[Lloyd Keen]

FWIW I don't think you're going to get all that much more performance out of an ide raid setup. Why don't you save yourself a hell of a lot of time and heartache and go with the software raid. Just remember to set the drives as master on both the primary and secondary. Just my $0.02 (AUD$0.01) worth

[Kelvin]

Personally, if I were using RAID of any sort at all, it would be for the purpose of safeguarding my data, not for performance, otherwise I'd stripe the drives or go RAID 5 with a more upspec controller - something that the current software RAID cannot do. Even if software RAID could do RAID 5 I doubt very much that it can match the performance of a dedicated RAID 5 controller. It is simpler to manage failed drives, reimaging, etc. using a hardware controller than software as well.

Kelvin