[svlug] software raid and kernel 2.6

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Rick Moen (rick at linuxmafia.com):

> If it's generic block-device storage, then you should be able to boot 
> on any kernel+initrd having either "sata_nv" (open source) or
> "nForce"(?) (proprietary) drivers for the Nforce4 chip....
   ^^^^^^^^^

I'm obliged to correct the above:  Being curious about the situation
with Nvidia's own driver sets, I downloaded and unpacked some of the
bundles available at http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html :  It turns
out that they (apparently) didn't write a SATA block-device driver of
their own.  Instead, they rely on Garzik's nv_sata block-device driver.
I'm guessing that they supplement that with a proprietary subdriver for
the nvRAID disk-striping format.

Duly corrected on my SATA Linux page.

> (Since then, my guesses have gotten better, in part 
> for clues lobbed at my from others including Garzik.)
  ^^^                 ^^

Caffeine cache miss.  ;->

Should be "in part from clues lobbed at me from others including Garzik".