I had an old athlon XP box running etch, with a RAID 0 array on it. It kept
dropping one drive to try to reset the SATA port. On extensive Googling I
found that it was a bug in keernel version (2.6.18-4) my advice is upgrade to
the latest supported kernel in etch (2.6.18-5). It now works fine.
Cheers,
Tim B.
On Saturday 03 November 2007 09:53, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:11:41AM -0000, Vic wrote:
> > At some point in the distand past, Lisi had the attribution removed from:
> > > The
> > > SATA card I have seems to have the possibility of a RAID, but again, I
> > > don't know how to use it.
> >
> > My recommendation would be not to bother - the Linux software RAID is
> > quick enough that you probably won't notice the processing overhead, and
> > gives you the added bonus that you won't be dependent on any particular
> > hardware vendor for your RAID.
>
> Or, as is more likely the case, the "RAID" on the card is actually
> implemented (badly) in software in the manufacturer's closed-source
> driver, so there's no hardware acceleration involved, and you're
> actually better off using the Linux native software-RAID
> implementation.
>
> Hugo.
