[CentOS] 915 Combo MS-7058 Ver1

[Michael Falzon]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 02:37 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:


> The ViA VT641x/642x are PCI to ATA/SATA chips.
> They seem to offer a "FRAID" (Fake RAID) BIOS option.
> 
> There is basic, 16-bit BIOS boot-time/setup, but _no_ on-board
> hardware/firmware intelligence.  100% of RAID functionality is driven by
> your CPU with the FRAID driver -- i.e., software RAID.
> 


Yep Guess that the Raid is fake,  software RAID has been good to me so
far.


> >From what I've read, no Linux kernel seems to integrate the driver yet,
> at least not through 2.6.11.  The Open Source (not GPL?) driver I found
> was here (see the bottom of the page):  
>   http://source.robertk.com/  
> 
> ViA has their own, official driver that claims to work with the VT6410,
> VT6420, VT6421 here:  
>   http://www.viaarena.com/Default.aspx?PageID=2  
> 
> There are 2 driver parts.  One is called "viapubraid", which seems to
> be the "stub driver," open source and it builds against the kernel
> version.  The other is "viaprvraid" which is object code (.o) only,
> much bigger (>100KiB), and likely the "FRAID IP" -- i.e., the RAID code
> is software and licensed from a 3rd party, which won't allow it to be
> open sourced.
> 
> So not only is it a PITA to just work as "standard ATA" in Linux, but
> you can pretty much forget RAID.
> 

I will have a look thanks as long as i can get it going that all I
need .....

See BUG.  "That's not a bug, it's a feature!"  
A bug can be changed to a feature by documenting it.


Michael Falzon (RHCT) 
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