Adaptec AAA-13x RAID

[Randall Hofland]

I thought it worth noting that several modest hardware RAID options for IDE are
available and a more advanced unit is in the works. ABIT makes an inexpensive 2
channel/4 device 0+1 RAID PCI card using the Highpoint controller chipset
(about $40-$50) and they have LINUX drivers plus their Gentus LINUX, Promise
makes a more expensive but otherwise similar PCI card and there is a new unit
coming out with 4 channel/8 device that sounds really hot but I haven't seen it
yet on Pricewatch. Abit and other also have the ATA/100-RAID options built into
some of their boards: I highly recommend the Abit KT7-RAID as a great low cost
option.

Michael Bilow wrote:

> I was actively involved with this and many of those messages might have
> been written by me.  There is not and never will be 7810 support in Linux
> while Adaptec provides documentation for it only under non-disclosure.
>
> Note that new-style software RAID in the kernel is quite solid.  You would
> not get hot-swap, but the basic advantages of RAID are there.  Considering
> the prices of large IDE drives these days, using software RAID over a bank
> of IDE drives is worth considering.  At today's prices, $500 would buy you
> two Maxtor Diamondmax 80GB IDE drives which could be mounted on the two
> channels of a standard motherboard for RAID-1.
>
> -- Mike
>
> On 2000-12-07 at 12:34 -0500, Matthew J. Brodeur wrote:
>
> >    Does anyone know if there is or ever will be support for the Adaptec
> > AAA series RAID controllers under Linux?  The one I have is the AAA-131SA,
> > UW single channel SCSI.  The aic7xxx driver recognizes the SCSI channel
> > (7880), but produces an unhappy message about not supporting  the array
> > controller (7810).
> >    I did some searching, but all I found were old messages indicating that
> > no work was being done on a driver. Is this still the case?
>
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