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Title: Raid - Self compiled driver
Post by: lancelott2 on March 08, 2009, 07:50:25 PM: 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
Title: Re: Raid - Self compiled driver
Post by: Stefano on March 08, 2009, 08:02:23 PM: 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
Title: Re: Raid - Self compiled driver
Post by: lancelott2 on March 08, 2009, 08:12:24 PM: 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
Title: Re: Raid - Self compiled driver
Post by: Stefano on March 08, 2009, 08:40:36 PM: hi

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

read here (http://www.colinmackenzie.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12:promise-satasas-driver-update-tx4650tx2650&catid=8:rotator&Itemid=7) for reference..

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

HTH
ciao
Stefano
Title: Re: Raid - Self compiled driver
Post by: lancelott2 on March 08, 2009, 08:49:11 PM: Hello Stefano,

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

Greetings,

lance
Title: Re: Raid - Self compiled driver
Post by: lancelott2 on March 08, 2009, 08:58:43 PM: For all others i found a site witch makes it more understandable....
http://fixunix.com/storage/247320-nvidia-raid.html

Greetings,

Lance
Title: Re: Raid - Self compiled driver
Post by: elmarconi on March 09, 2009, 07:33:20 PM: Quote from: lancelott2 on March 08, 2009, 08:58:43 PM
http://fixunix.com/storage/247320-nvidia-raid.html

Well, that was a delight to see there how respectfull these people treat eachother... :shock:
Title: Re: Raid - Self compiled driver
Post by: CharlieBrady on March 09, 2009, 08:10:16 PM: Quote from: lancelott2 on March 08, 2009, 08:12:24 PM
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.
Title: Re: Raid - Self compiled driver
Post by: Stefano on March 09, 2009, 09:01:05 PM: Quote from: CharlieBrady on March 09, 2009, 08:10:16 PM
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
Title: Re: Raid - Self compiled driver
Post by: lancelott2 on March 09, 2009, 10:56:10 PM: Ok so software-raid then ... but what are the fake-raids good for then?

Thanks to all
Greetings,

Lance
Title: Re: Raid - Self compiled driver
Post by: CharlieBrady on March 09, 2009, 10:58:16 PM: Quote from: lancelott2 on March 09, 2009, 10:56:10 PM
but what are the fake-raids good for then?

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