Cheap IDE RAID solution? SIL680 AKA CMD680

[dirty_d]

I have recently bought a CMD680 ide raid controller for aprox 25$ USD
(shipped). Ihave read several indepth reviews:

www.xbitlabs.com/storage/cmd680/
www.xbitlabs.com/storage/3-ata133-comparison/

this controller is an amazing solution for the price. BUT so far in all my googling I have not found any raid support in linux, but it does support it as a regular ide udma 133 controller. I wanted to inform everybody of this remarkable but cheap raid controller to help bring kernel raid support to the cmd680 like the high point and promise controllers.

[washegon]

Hello,

I,ve had this lying around for awhile and now I'd like to do a stage1 install with it but, I have run into some snaggs.

1) I cannot seem to load up the right modules to access the controller. (ataraid, promise , ht) dont seem to work.
2) Inturn I cannot cfdisk any part of the hard drive to setup the partions dev/(hde) let alone install anything.

If anyone has an idea please let me know.

[phypor]

The only available kernels supporting it (as of March 04, 2003) are:
ac-sources-2.4.21_pre5-r1
and
development-sources-2.5.60
(later versions of these id assume would as well)

i have to sacrifice good storage for a good kernel
so im using the -ac one cause development wont boot.

i run mine as a straight ide card (not raid) and it works great

see also these coupla posts

basically... support now is there but limited,
support in the future will be mainline in 2.6

~phypor

[washegon]

Hello,

Well now I know what to do as far as the kernel but what I meant was How do I get started from scratch with this ide/raid card ie. stage 1 install. All the info points to software raid and promise & HT ide cards. My porblem is I can't even open up (hde). What can I do?

Thanks again.