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. Actually, a lot of these cheap IDE RAID controllers really do do something, and don't require any drivers. They do require a braindead OS which trusts the BIOS completely. Of course, they generally do only do RIAD0 and or RAID1, which are very light on the computation. -- Sam Barnett-Cormack Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University
