Re: RocketRAID 1740 driver for Fedora 7
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 23:26 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:28:15 -0400
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak(a)thesandhufamily.ca> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have a rocketraid 1740 controller that I want to use in a soon to be
> installed Fedora 7 system.
It ought to just work. The 1740 according to the info I have is just a
Marvell 88SX6042 and some funky Windows/BIOS raid software.
What kernel module gets loaded, then?
I was going to use the card with three SATA II drives to create a 1 TB
RAID 5 array, and install Fedora 7 on it. But, then I thought that if
the card driver wasn't in the kernel, I would have to rebuild it with
each kernel upgrade, including inserting it into the initrd - big pain
in the ass.
Soooo, I've been considering using an IDE drive as the boot/OS drive,
and the RAID array for data to make everything simpler (no need to put
the module into the initrd with each new kernel upgrade).
Regards,
Ranbir
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