Re: Lully

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Paul Slootman wrote:

> If it's an external raid system, then no raid patches should be
> necessary in the kernel; it should present itself as one (or more)
> disks. Only if you want to implement the raid in software in the kernel
> would patches be necessary. However, I don't believe any patches _are_
> necessary! I've used the stock kernel to drive 3 disks in raid-0 mode
> off an adaptec on an alpha, and that worked fine.

I should have been more clear, it is just an external SCSI chassis hooked
up to the external SCSI port. Software RAID is required for this. Also,
the drives were formatted with the most recent RAID patches so they do not
work with the standard RAID in the kernel.

Jason