linux raid questions

[Adam McDougall]

Can either of these pick up the config off of promise raid or HPT
370 raid sets?  Any word of it happening or dunno?

On 19 Sep 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Mark Szidik <szidikm@mlc.lib.mi.us> writes:
> 
> > I am setting up software RAID in Linux for the first time.
> > (I am going by the HOWTO for version .90 of the raidtool)
> 
> The most likely problem is that your kernel's RAID subsystem
> doesn't match the tools that you are using.  There are two major
> revisions of RAID in Linux:
> 
> 	1. The original RAID that is built into kernels 2.0.x and
>            2.2.x.
> 
> 	2. Ingo's RAID 0.9.0, which is in kernel 2.4.x
>            prereleases and which is also integrated into some
>            vendor kernels.  Alan Cox keeps talking about putting
>            these patches into the next 2.2.x release, but so far
>            this hasn't happened.
> 
> The on-disk representations for these two RAID versions are not
> compatible, and neither are the tools used to manipulate them.
> Make sure that you're using tools that match your kernel.
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