On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Emilio wrote:
*sigh* binary modules are a huge pain in the ass for all involved. Especially when they're built against known buggy kernels. Complain to Highpoint, and ask for a newer set of modules.
*shrug*. Vendors have to get their heads around the fact that binary modules are a *bad* idea. Since 2.4.0, there have been _dozens_ of fixes to various filesystems, the block layer, the IDE & SCSI layers, many of which were made as it was possible to cause data corruption. Given Highpoints lack of clue over this fact alone, I wouldn't trust my data to a company who blatantly disregards these issues. Thankfully Andre Hedrick has stood his ground and not allowed us to get into a position where we need binary drivers just to get the drives to talk. I own a highpoint controller myself, and use software RAID0 on it. It performs very well, giving me between 40-50MB/s transfer rates. I doubt tbh that the binary drivers would improve on this. Leaving just two things for Highpoint to have over the open driver. Support for RAID sets created with the BIOS. (Not that big a deal unless your RAID set contains a FAT volume that you dual boot into Windows with). (And theres a reverse engineered solution to this in Alan Cox's tree). (Not sure if Hubert has merged this with the SuSE kernel yet) And the other feature they have is a graphical setup tool. To which I answer: vim /etc/raidtab It really isn't difficult to set up at all. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs