[WBEL-users] RAID using Highpoint hpt37x

[Tim Moore]

On most motherboards the standard EIDE ports are scanned first at boot 
time, so booting off them is usually easier to set up than booting off a 
secondary controller.  If it's not an issue then it doesn't matter.

rgds,
tim.

Thrift Internet Service wrote:
> 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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