RAID1 on HPT370 possible?

camt · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 4 Location: Chicago, IL

I see lots of people having success with RAID0 on the HPT370. I would like to run (and even boot off of) a RAID1 array on the HPT370. Is this supported in the current kernel? I have not had any luck so far. Any tips?

-- Cameron

EDIT: Fixed the missing question mark in the subject.

delta407 · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 3:17 am Post subject:

The Highpoint controller handles the RAID stuff; yeah, you should be able to use RAID 1 (assuming you have HPT370 working anyway).

camt · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 4 Location: Chicago, IL

delta407 · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 3:25 am Post subject:

Hmmm... I dunno, I've never used a Highpoint controller under Linux.

rommel · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 7:27 am Post subject:

this may or may not help but over at amdmb.com in the linux forum there is a thread on how to set up the promise in linux using the raid1 config...it might give you some insight on how to go about setting your highpoint up....should be fairly similar i would think

syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

the ide "raid" controllers are really only extra IDE connectors with a handy bios that allows WINDOWS machines to boot off of an array, they dont offer hardly ANY performance advantage from just software raid. I would suggest making a small boot partition for your kernel and use software RAID with linux..... you will have ZERO problems this route compared to the HPT370...

i ran into a lot of problems trying to use my hpt370 in raid1, though raid0 would function correctly. i now have five drives, two seperate raid0 sets on the HPT370 and a single 20G on the pri controller on the mobo, i just run a 128MB /boot and a 19GB /home on the 20G and have a software raid1 accross the two raid0 sets giving me raid0+1.

delta407 · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 4:14 pm Post subject: Re: bah

syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

i can appreciate the correction made by delta407,
please excuse the excesively broad comment on IDE RAID.

what i was shooting for was the HighPoint and Promise IDE RAID cards that you can pick up for under a fifty bucks or so...

their are some very nice FULLY controlled IDE RAID systems that work nicely and have either a SCSI/USB2/Firewire/or proprietary controller and use very little CPU power, mostly using an onboard processor that handles io tasks for the array..

but these do come at a premium price usually out of the budget of the average consumer.

zypher · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 7:18 pm Post subject:

look for the highpoint website.
Their modules are binary and for specific kernels only.
Last week I installed a server with two 80gig driver as a raid1 pair.
Set up the raid in hp's bios.
Had to use rh7.2 (shiver), but it worked (k 2.4.7).
Maybe kernel-support will be available in the 2.5.x sieries.
For now only raid0 is supported.

camt · n00b Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 4 Location: Chicago, IL

That's the information I was looking for.

Hopefully they will get something going in 2.5.x, but a quick scan of the changelogs didn't reveal anything exciting in terms of the HPT370.

I will stick with software RAID for now.

Thanks.