Topic: Raid - Self compiled driver

[lancelott2]

Hallo all,

i got a generall question - is it good to use a selfcompiled raid-driver and
how does it work when der is a kernel-update?

Greetings,

Lance

[Stefano]

hi

if you are talking about a fake-raid controller, it's a bad idea.. let SME use its sw raid.. it's far more secure

if you are talking about a real-hw-raid controller, I'm curious to know what kind of ctrl are you trying to use..

Ciao
Stefano

[lancelott2]

Hello,

no its a real hardware controller, a promise Fast Trak TX2650. All drivers i found are not working. There is one to compile witch should work. But i was thinking if there comes a kernelupdate and the driver is gone than it would be useless because i wouldnt come on harddrive.

Greetings,

Lance

[Stefano]

hi

I'm sorry, but your card is a fake-raid one..

read here for reference..

then, use it simply like a controller and let SME use its raid..

HTH
ciao
Stefano

[lancelott2]

Hello Stefano,

omg, i havent know that. But thank you a lot .

Greetings,

lance

[lancelott2]

For all others i found a site witch makes it more understandable....
http://fixunix.com/storage/247320-nvidia-raid.html

Greetings,

Lance

[elmarconi]

http://fixunix.com/storage/247320-nvidia-raid.html

Well, that was a delight to see there how respectfull these people treat eachother... 

[CharlieBrady]

But i was thinking if there comes a kernelupdate and the driver is gone than it would be useless because i wouldnt come on harddrive.

It's worse than that. If your controller dies, your hard drive(s) becomes useless.

Use software RAID.

[Stefano]

It's worse than that. If your controller dies, your hard drive(s) becomes useless.

even worse, not his hd(s), but his data .. he can always re-use the hd.. but all data in them are lost..

Ciao
Stefano

[lancelott2]

Ok so software-raid then ... but what are the fake-raids good for then?

Thanks to all
Greetings,

Lance

[CharlieBrady]

but what are the fake-raids good for then?

To sell to people who know no better [e.g. Microsoft customers.]