RE: Raid 1

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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am Mo, den 16.02.2004 schrieb kaze um 04:57:
> > I might be totally wrong, but if you set up the RAID as hardware RAID, from
> > the OS's point of view there is only one hard drive - so there is _no_ OS /
> > software stuff to do.
> 
> You are wrong, in the case you are speaking of those "fake" RAID
> adapters like the Belkin IDE the OP asked about or the low budget
> Promise or HighPoint controllers. they are just BIOS supported pure
> software (with special, often closed source driver) controllers.
> Speaking of IDE RAID controllers only the 3ware controllers are real
> hardware RAID controllers. They have an own logic chip doing the job.

Also there is the the promise sx6000 it's just that neither their driver
nor the i2o-pci approach seem to work terribly reliably with the
hardware...  and it's slow. There's also the adpatec serial ata and p-ata
raid controllers.


 
> Alexander
> 
> 
> 

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