Hardware RAID in Linux?

[LordMorlock]

I recently obtained an Adaptec AHA-3985 SCSI RAID Adapter (with 3 SCSI channels as independent RAID adapters supporting 7 SCSI devices each).

I have found that Red Hat and other distros list this device as supported, however there seems to be mainly mentions of it's SCSI abilities being supported and not RAID.

The software (required to setup RAID types - RAID 0, 1/0, 5) supplied by Adaptec is for Novell Netware only (thanks Acraptec) and their site only has this same software.

Is it possible to get this card's RAID ability working under Linux?

If there isn't any software available to create the RAID configurations, would it be difficult to write something (I have not written any drivers or "direct hardware accessing" software before)?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thankyou


Lord Morlock

[furrycat]

RAID cards usually have the RAID setup as BIOS options. Look for boot messages from the card.

[LordMorlock]

I know that most cards have RAID as a bios booty type configurator, but all the documentation says, is that the boot part is just to specify SCSI terminators 'n' stuff like that. For RAID configs they say to install and use the NetWare software.