Hardware Raid?

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Aaron Abramson Wrote: 
> Well, my ability to access NTFS isn't a problem.  I just want to have my
> 
> linux partitions protected by a hardware Raid-1 setup.  It doesnt make 
> sense to have a hardware raid array set up if the OS isn't going to
> make 
> use of it.
> 
> ~Aaron
> 
> zerokarmaleft wrote:
> 
> >AFAIK, IDE RAID support for Highpoint cards operating in RAID 0 or
> RAID
> >1 is not available in 2.6.x kernels, but IS available in 2.4.x
> kernels.
> >I've got an older Highpoint with two 80GB WDs in RAID 0, and I had to
> >add boot into a 2.4.x kernel manually configured with Highpoint IDE
> >RAID support.  From there, I can properly mount the NTFS partitions
> >that are on the RAID array (/dev/ataraid).  I'm sure that installing a
> >2.4.x kernel into Ubuntu will break some things (udev and hal, for
> >instance) so I use a live CD whenever I need something off those
> >drives.  Once I get another hard drive big enough to backup everything
> >on the RAID array, I'm going to delete the array and use the drives
> >individually.  Software RAID is still an option, at least.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
These RAID cards are NOT hardware raid, they are supported by BIOS and
their corresponding drivers and use CPU to emulate a single RAID
volume.

You might want to look at dmraid, which configures device-mapper
devices from RAID meta data.


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