[WBEL-users] RAID using Highpoint hpt37x

[Thrift Internet Service]

What is the advantage of using the fasttrack ports as standard IDE ports
with software RAID, rather than just use the regular IDE ports on the
mainboard?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan-Albert van Ree" <javanree@vanree.net>
To: <whitebox-users@beau.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] RAID using Highpoint hpt37x


> On Monday 05 April 2004 20:04, Thrift Internet Service wrote:
> > I have installed WBEL and am 'kicking the tires'. So far it looks very
> > good. I'll be testing the machine for use as a RADIUS authentication &
> > email server in actual production soon.
> >
> > One thing I insist on in my servers is hardware RAID, and I have
> > standardized on the Highpoint hpt372 chip. The Highpoint driver worked
> > fine for RH 8 & 9, but it doesn't work at all for WBEL.
>
> First of all the HPT372 controller isn't truely a hardware RAID solution.
> Part of the RAID is done in software, eating CPU cycles.
>
> I have a board with the Promise Fasttrack100 chipset, also not fully
> hardware RAID. What I've done is use the ports as "standard" IDE ports
> (which should still work in Whitebox, add the IDE2=xxxx and IDE3=xxx
> options as per the IDE HOWTO) and used software RAID. I doubt you'll see
> much performance difference. Over here it works like a champ in RAID1
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