Steve Bergman wrote:
I have several machines with a Dell (LSI) ide RAID controller that LSI just decided not to port from kernel 2.4 to 2.6. Although it has now been ported by the community, it has never really regained its status a first class citizen. It's possible to make it work, but every kernel upgrade breaks it again. My plan is to be rid of all of these "unsupported" cards by next October and run software RAID on all my machines.
Sorry to reply to myself, but my post suggested a question. I have been planning on doing a clean install to move from hardware raid to software. The plan is to move from Fedora 4 with hardware raid to CentOS 5 with software raid in September. However, I suppose there is a way to move from a CERC 4ch/ATA100 comtroller using the old "megaraid.ko" module running RAID 1 with 2 drives, to software RAID 1, simply by moving the IDE cables and editing some config files.
Does anyone have a recipe handy?
Thanks, Steve