Sunday, April 01, 2007

Fake RAID links

Wikipedia FakeRAID Def
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakeraid
Not transparent to the OS like real RAID. Not controlled entirely by the operating system either like softRAID. However, it uses hardware and needs an OS driver.

LINUX FakeRAID drivers
http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html

List of FaikRAID hardware devices/controllers
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

My MoBo
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1770&page=1

This Mobo uses the following kernel modules:
sata_nv: for the 4 nForce4 controllers

kernel configure option:
CONFIG_SATA_NV=y


menconfig path:
- Device Drivers -->
-- Serial ATA (prod) and ... -->
--- ATA device support -->
---- NVIDIA SATA support
----- sata_sil: for the 4 Sillicon Image 3314 controllers


kernel configure option:
CONFIG_SATA_SLI = y

menuconfig path:
- Device Drivers -->
-- Serial ATA (prod) and ... -->
--- ATA device support -->
---- Silicon Image SATA support
----- ahci: generic Open standard (I don't have this, but worth a mention)


kernel configure option:
CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y

menuconfig path:
- Device Drivers -->
-- Serial ATA (prod) and ... -->
--- ATA device support -->
---- AHCI SATA support


Both of these modules depend on the module:
libata

Libata depends on the following module:
scsi_mod

kernel configure option:
CONFIG_SCSI=y

menuconfig path:
- Device Drivers -->
-- SCSI device support -->
--- SCSI device support

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