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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: athouston on June 29, 2010, 07:43:07 AM

Title: Highpoint RocketRAID 1740 SATA controller
Post by: athouston on June 29, 2010, 07:43:07 AM

I have the above mentioned card which has drivers for Fedora Core (1 through 6), RHEL (3 through 4U4), SLES (9 and 10), SuSE (8.1 through 10.1) and FreeBSD 4.3 through 6).

Can I use any of these in TinyCore and how do I load the driver please?

Title: Re: Highpoint RocketRAID 1740 SATA controller
Post by: curaga on June 29, 2010, 09:29:30 AM

Looks like the plain sata is supported by sata_mv (included in TC). Not sure if that supports the raid abilities of the card; at least linux sw raid is available in any case.

For use with TC you should probably build the open source driver they offer.

Title: Re: Highpoint RocketRAID 1740 SATA controller
Post by: athouston on June 29, 2010, 06:56:19 PM

TC sees all four drives on the card as separate drives when I install and I have the RAID5 array configured in the card BIOS. I'm not familiar (yet) with sata_mv.

I thought about swRAID but I want the performance. This card is pretty quick so it fits the TC ethos nicely.

I am relatively new to LINUX generally and especially TC so rebuilding the open source driver is beyond me at this point. Can you point me to doco on doing this and I'll have a go. ALternatively is there anyone who does (or can do) this.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Highpoint RocketRAID 1740 SATA controller
Post by: gerald_clark on June 29, 2010, 07:24:38 PM

Don't bother with the fakeraid drivers. They are not any faster than  mdRAID.