On Wed, 14 May 2003, Joel Wickard wrote: > I got Highpoint RocketRaid133 card a couple months back. I got the > card because it supported linux, but I found out that it didn't have > exactly the support I was looking for. It had drivers for Suse and > Redhat, but only for redhat 7.3, and I wanted to use 8 or 9, which I > guess isn't a big deal. I got it working well on RHL9, but I had to > install the system first, and then build the driver on the running > system and change fstab to mount the partitions on /dev/sda instead of > hda, wasn't a huge deal and works well now. I actually just inhereted a Adaptec 1200A, which as far as I can tell is just a HighPoint 370A. It looks like the drivers HighPoint provides are similar to the NVidia drivers - a binary stub file, and then a c wrapper so you can build it for your current kernel. I'm going to try both those drivers, and the 'ataraid' drivers in the -ac tree of the kernel (the ataraid driver is for both the HPT37x cards and for the el-cheapo Promise raid cards).. it'd be nice if the pure open source drivers would work. > In my search for getting that one running however I saw a LOT of > people posting that 3ware cards were where it's at. Yeah, like I said in my last post, 3ware rules. Of course, $130 for a 2-channel raid controller or ~$275 for a 4-channel is a bit more cash than a lot of people want to pay. Just to note, I have yet to find a Linux-based management tool that I like nearly as much as 3ware's.. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list