Richard, When I installed my Suse 9.0 I had a hard time to get it not to use the soft raid, but the hardware controller. The problem was that I partioned the raid drives as type Linux RAID 0xFD and the installer then did the rest automatically, meaning installed the soft raid. Guenter Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
The software raid HOWTO that comes with 9.0 (/usr/share/doc/howto/en/html/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html) shows results for RAID (1+0) - so I'm thinking that this is possible.
However after trying for a day or two I cannot figure out how to make this combination work using the yast partitioner tool. Is this supported? Do I have to use a different tool?
I have an Epox 4PCA3+ motherboard with a builtin Highpoint hpt374 controller (six IDE channels in all). I have 9.0 installed on an 80GB drive off of the main IDE controller and have four 120MB drives, each on its own IDE channel that is attached to the Highpoint chip.
The controller supports RAID 1+0, but I wanted to compare the performance of the htp374 versus just using software raid. I've been reading that in a lot of cases the software raid performs much better than the cheap BIOS-based hardware raid.
This is for a file server and I was hoping to have one large partition instead of two.
Thank you - Richard