Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Adaptec RAID driver? | Date | Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:14:36 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > No and if this is the Adaptec IDE raid the feedback I've had has been > > pretty negative on getting open source drivers. Having said that Adaptec > > have opensourced their driver for some of the aac scsi raid cards > > Not until the is an API bypass of XOR in md.c that allows for RAID 5 > calculations to be redirected to the HOST will this ever be adopted.
Then I can recommend people use 3ware products instead 8)
Being able to do the xor in the firmware with raid 0.90 doesnt seem that hard, we already pick from a choice of functions it just needs to per device not global
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