RE: [SLE] Abit KT7A-RAID ?

Tis is true tis is true but i would rather it be a "little" hard ware done and not software. Brandon Caudle -------------- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux)

From: "David Bottrill" To: Subject: RE: [SLE] Abit KT7A-RAID ? Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:18:54 +0100

I have the older version of this motherboard which also has the HTP370 controller, this works fine and the SuSE 7.2 2.4.4 kernel has the HTP370 support installed a default.

I haven't tried the RAID functions of the RAID BIOS, but why bother, it's not like a commerical RAID card that has it's own cpu / memory to handle the RAID function, so the HTP BIOS will still steal cpu cycles to perform the raid function. So why not just install the Linux RAID utilities and let Linux do the work, at least that way you will have full control over the raid functions within Linux and I dare say the performance would be little different to using the BIOS method.

David Bottrill

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-----Original Message----- From: Brandon Caudle [mailto:bcaudle@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 12:54 AM To: books@computerbooksforless.com Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Abit KT7A-RAID ?

I guess I will go with FreeBSD then because I have it on my machine at home and it works great! But my boss wanted SuSe so I do ask he said. Yet when I told him this and gave hime the choice between Windows 2000 Server and FreeBSD well I just won't answer that we all should know what he chose .... FreeBSD

Brandon Caudle -------------- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux)

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From: Computer Books For Less To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Abit KT7A-RAID ? Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:01:58 -0400

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Ok Here I go , I recently bought 3 Abit KT7A-RAID Mobos from Ebay. I also bought 2 80gig IDE Hard drives for one. I was planning to make a RAID level 0 (striping). I set the hard drives up with the utilitiy that

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and set the boot device to the first raid. I then booted into

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and it saw the two as 2 seperate hds, any ideas? Oh and I can't seem to make any of the video cards i have to work. one is the geforce 32meg

At 06:52 PM 7/30/01, you wrote: they provided the install the other

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is the geforce 64meg and the other is a ati rage 100?

Does that board have a High Point HPT370 Raid Controller, than the answer is that there is no support/drivers for this controller at this time.

I have the same problem I got the Epox EP-8K7A+ with the HPT370 Controller set it up last night with 2 new Maxtor 20GB HDD's. Now I'm just very disappointed. The High Point Tech web site says on their home page that the controller is supported under all Linux distro's. However, after some investigation I found that it only supports it as standard IDE controller. There is a patch on there web site for it. I also found out that if you want the Raid 1 0 than your choses are NetBSD, FreeBSD, or the windows. :-(

Moral: Read the fine print.

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