On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Michael Klinosky mpk2@enter.net wrote:
Hello. I'm setting up a computer that will run 'CentOS 6 server'. The MB is an Asus with a hw raid controller (Promise PDC-20276), which I want to use in RAID-1 mode. I noted (from a MB website) that it also needs a driver
- which is probably why it's called a 'fakeraid'.
So, I've been trying to determine if any recent kernels support this chip. Using google.com/linux, I found lots of hits dating about 2002 - 04, and referencing the 2.4 kernel (which had the driver compiled into it). But, nothing newer.
I checked kernel.org and kernelnewbies.org - I see that raid-1 is supported. But, I can't find any reference to this chip.
How can I find out what drivers are compiled into a given kernel? Or, basically what hardware a given kernel supports?
CentOS 6 hasn't been released yet.
The card that you want to use isn't a real RAID card and uses the PC's CPU for RAID calculations so you're better of using Linux md software raid for this purpose.