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 > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
