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On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 02:37 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">The ViA VT641x/642x are PCI to ATA/SATA chips.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">They seem to offer a "FRAID" (Fake RAID) BIOS option.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">There is basic, 16-bit BIOS boot-time/setup, but _no_ on-board</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">hardware/firmware intelligence. 100% of RAID functionality is driven by</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">your CPU with the FRAID driver -- i.e., software RAID.</FONT>
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Yep Guess that the Raid is fake, software RAID has been good to me so far.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>From what I've read, no Linux kernel seems to integrate the driver yet,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">at least not through 2.6.11. The Open Source (not GPL?) driver I found</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">was here (see the bottom of the page): </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> <A HREF="http://source.robertk.com/">http://source.robertk.com/</A> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">ViA has their own, official driver that claims to work with the VT6410,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">VT6420, VT6421 here: </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> <A HREF="http://www.viaarena.com/Default.aspx?PageID=2">http://www.viaarena.com/Default.aspx?PageID=2</A> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">There are 2 driver parts. One is called "viapubraid", which seems to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">be the "stub driver," open source and it builds against the kernel</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">version. The other is "viaprvraid" which is object code (.o) only,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">much bigger (>100KiB), and likely the "FRAID IP" -- i.e., the RAID code</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">is software and licensed from a 3rd party, which won't allow it to be</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">open sourced.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">So not only is it a PITA to just work as "standard ATA" in Linux, but</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">you can pretty much forget RAID.</FONT>
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I will have a look thanks as long as i can get it going that all I need .....<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#000033">See BUG. "That's not a bug, it's a feature!" </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#000033">A bug can be changed to a feature by documenting it.</FONT></TT><BR>
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