https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280972#c25
--- Comment #25 from Richard Creighton 2007-08-01 12:33:34 MST ---
Mr. Kelem, I suggest reading comment 21 carefully and then note response 22
which is almost identical to your experience. The general attitude so far
seems to be that because the driver (written by redhat) states it is alpha (and
has for as long as I can remember), that they don't want to patch the SuSE
kernel to be able to use it yet it used to work (SuSE 10.0) and even had a
howto published for those that wanted DMRaid support. I had it working but
when I upgraded to 10.2, I, like you lost everything on a 1.09Terrabyte raid.
My solution so far has been to either scrap SuSE and go to Fedora (which I
really don't want to do) or to buy a small drive to boot the system from and
enable MDRaid (software raid) until SuSE decides that just because RedHat's
documentation still says 'alpha', that is a bogus reason to lag behind the
competition especially since it works! I am *trying* to remain loyal to what
I consider a superior distro, one the I supported by buying the boxed version
originally and would do again if I wasn't forced to spend my money on
unnecessary supplementary disk drives. For now, I remain supportive of Novell
and SuSe, but I hope the decisions made by them in support of the product are
not capricious or ill-thought out. RAID support at the hardware level is
imperative in business and increasingly so also even in the private sector
especially given multimedia file storage requirements, etc. So again, Mr
Kulow and Mr. Mahoney, if you are part of the decision tree, make the right
decision, not for expediency, but for effect and function remembering the patch
and driver can be an optional install by those desiring hardware raid support
and you don't have to guarantee anything, you don't and can't now, you only say
that if it breaks, we own all the pieces, and that is as it should be. Let
the owner of the machine make the decision.
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