Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Mark Belanger <mark_belanger at 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. I dont' know - how do I tell? I fired up a 3.5 install, it saw the disks, and I installed. Creating a 100Meg files seems pretty good: time dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/blah bs=1024 count=100000 100000+0 records in 100000+0 records out real 0m1.226s user 0m0.030s sys 0m1.170s -Mark > > >>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. > > > -- Mark Belanger LTX Corporation