Raid controllers & linux (solved through workaround)

Hi All,
at current I use a highpoint card for my raid array. However, when I upgrade the kernel I always have to compile the highpoint driver.
Now this in itself is no big problem. However, as of the 2.6.18 kernel the highpoint driver won't compile because of loads of missing methods. Ofcourse it will be updated in time or I can hack something together myself, but it is quite annoying.
So now I want to switch to a raid controller where it is supported by the default kernel so I don't have such a maintenance issue.
I heard that this is the case with the promise cards.
Can any of you shed some light on this?
Thanks,
Leon..

El Bastardo wrote:
FUBAR wrote:
Doesn't the kernel have built in Highpoint support? (hpt37x module)
Or are you using a "real" (not onboard) card, i.e. something fancy?
If you're using onboard RAID, you might aswell get rid of it and use Linux software RAID and just use the Highpoint as a simple diskcontroller without the RAID functionality.
I use the onboard raid. The default hpt374 kernel support is not applicable for the raid. You have to run a special highpoint driver and turn probing of the disks off at grub.
If I understand correctly, using the hpt374 module you'll have access to the seperate disks but not to the RAID-arrays configured on the controller.
If that's the case, I'd go for Linux software RAID. Especially if you're using the connected disks solely for Linux and your bootdisk is on a regular IDE/SATA/SCSI controller: I don't know if you can boot from the onboard controller. You certainly won't be able to boot a software RAID-0 array.

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