From: matt <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] VIA VT8237 SATA/RAID
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:02:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <462373E3.4090205@proweb.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e930417c1ce414d2b2d050c755b9f85@coraid.com>
thanks to Ex-Cyber for this http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html
You're right, it's a fake RAID
I just re-read fs(3) for #k and see interleaving of disks rather than
mirroring
I shall take a look at that because I'm chasing RAID 0 not RAID 1
or rather I'm chasing I/O speed for CF and not really in plan9 because
of no firewire, I'm just reporting in :)
>it sounds like plan 9 is not recognizing the via sata "raid".
>from what i've read about this chipset, this is fake raid.
>generally chipsets with fake raid present their drives as
>legacy ata unless you fiddle with the correct registers. but
>in this case, i'm just guessing. linux doesn't appear to
>recognize raid mode for the 8237's vt6240, although it
>does set up native mode.
>
>why not compare sd[EF]0/data. if they are the same and
>you can mount one
> mount /srv/dos /n/e: /dev/sdE0/data
>then you could use '#k' to do the mirroring in software.
>
>- erik
>
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have an MSI K8T NEO2 FIR Motherboard with on-board VT8237 SATA/RAID
>>
>>I connected two SATA drives to it and used the BIOS Raid creator to
>>create a striped RAID set.
>>
>>When I booted into Plan 9 I didn't get the single striped drive I was
>>hoping for :
>>
>>--rw-r----- S 0 maht maht 15990784 Mar 5 2006 sdE0/data
>>-lrw------- S 0 maht maht 0 Mar 5 2006 sdE0/raw
>>--rw-r----- S 0 maht maht 0 Mar 5 2006 sdE0/ctl
>>--rw-r----- S 0 maht maht 15990784 Mar 5 2006 sdF0/data
>>-lrw------- S 0 maht maht 0 Mar 5 2006 sdF0/raw
>>--rw-r----- S 0 maht maht 0 Mar 5 2006 sdF0/ctl
>>
>>(yes they are 16Mb drives - they're compact flash in a SATA adapter)
>>
>>I rebooted and formatted them as FAT with Windows to test the striping
>>which worked fine but but the result in Plan 9 was the same.
>>
>>
>>
>>I have an on-board SiL 3114 SATA/RAID at work so I'll try that one next
>>
>>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-16 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-16 11:10 matt
2007-04-16 12:30 ` erik quanstrom
2007-04-16 13:02 ` matt [this message]
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