Where's the hardware compatibility list?

[James Kosin]

Dear Jeroen Lankheet,

It's easier to install during setup.  Otherwise, it is very tedious!

Just my experience with RAID.

James Kosin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeroen Lankheet" <Jeroen.Lankheet at hccnet.nl>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:09 AM
Subject: RE: Where's the hardware compatibility list?


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| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
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| > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 3:53 PM
| > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
| > Subject: RE: Where's the hardware compatibility list?
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]
| > On Behalf Of Jeroen Lankheet
| > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 1:39 AM
| > To: Fedora
| > Subject: Where's the hardware compatibility list?
| >
| >
| > Hi there,
| >
| > I need to upgrade from RH7.3 either to RH9 or to Fedora. I base my
| > decision on the presence of HPT370 RAID support. RH9 has a 3rd party
| > driver. But i cannot find any information on Fedora RAID support, or any
| > other hardware support.
| >
| > Could anyone please tell me where it is?
| >
| > Jeroen Lankheet
| >
| >
| > --
| >
| > Jeroen, a number of people have already recommended that you avoid using
| > the HPT370 RAID functionality and I won't argue with that.  I have an
| > add-in HPT370 PCI card in my system and I use Fedora's software striping
| > + parity (I forget which RAID level that is) because Linux will
| > recognize that controller as a plain old IDE controller.  Now, if you
| > want to boot your system from that RAID device, I think that another
| > message has explained why that may be more of a pain than it's worth,
| > but if you are looking to boot from a single drive and use the RAID
| > array for a separate partition(s), I would recommend avoiding the
| > Highpoint drivers altogether and just using Linux's software RAID.
| > You'll find that the performance of Fedora's RAID implementation is
| > superior to that of Highpoint.
| >
| > Or, if nothing else, you can at least add up to four more drives to your
| > system without using RAID.
| >
| > Good luck!
| >
| > Drew
| >
| > Drew Dunn
| > Simulation Engineer
| > Micron Technology, Inc.
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| >
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|
| Thanks again,
|
| I remember a software RAID can be configured during installation is it
not?
| Or do I have to do that once the system is already running?
|
| Regards,
| Jeroen.
|
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