[NCLUG] Highpoint IDE RAID For Linux?

dann frazier dannf at dannf.org
Mon Nov 5 19:38:31 MST 2001


DJ -
highpoint used to have a binary-only driver on their site - probably still do.
there is also a hptraid driver in 2.4.10 and later that may support the
raid functionality.

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 07:26:33PM -0700, DJ Eshelman wrote:
> Has anyone tried using a Highpoint EIDE RAID controller with Linux?  Last
> time I looked, there was no support for the RAID Functions of the device.  I
> only ask now because one of the drives failed from being thrashed by NT4 (if
> you don't know what 'thrashing' is, I'll forgive you just this once), and,
> well, heat problems from being stuffed in a closet.  So when and if I replace
> the drive I'd really like to go (back) to using Linux as a SAMBA server for
> this bad boy, but I'm not sure I want to lose the RAID 0, you know?  It was
> pretty darn fast...
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