Mark Belanger mark_belanger@ltx.com wrote:
For the sake of completeness (and people searching the archives) Centos3.5 has the drivers I need.
Drivers for just the ATA/SATA channel support? Or the FRAID disk organization?
I've seen people think the ATA/SATA driver is the FRAID support, when the FRAID is in addition to the ATA/SATA channel support.
Thanks to all who suggested alternate methods for CentOS versions that do not.
In kernel 2.6, the LVM2-DM (Device Mapper) can do a lot. It can read the FRAID vendors disk organization, and LVM2-MD can handle provide the software RAID logic (without the vendor's proprietary, 3rd party code)
It's also _very_broken_ too.
Furthermore, vendors change disk organization/logic continuously between models.
Lastly, I've also not seen FRAID-5 supported yet either.