I never understood this argument of hardware raid and software raid. To me, software raid is operating system dependant. Linuxraid partitions, or Microsoft partitions mirrored across disks. Load up fdisk, and what do you see, but 2 or more independent disks. However, an hp smart array, the logical drive is configured in the bios of the card. Why would you call other vendors cards "fake raid" when theirs is almost the same process? Just because its not SCSI? Im not following you here. If fdisk shows 1 logical drive drive to work with, and not independent disks, then why is it fake raid? Was a software driver loaded to make this possible? Is it less reliable? jonathan -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Claude Jones Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 8:08 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: SuperMicro 5013 On Mon August 22 2005 8:50 am, Markku Kolkka wrote: > Claude Jones kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 22. > > ASUS P4C800 ?? RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, Multiple RAID, built > > in, but maybe that's not what you're talking about > > It's not a *hardware* raid controller, it's BIOS-based software > RAID a.k.a fake-RAID. > http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html Thanks for that link, Markku - there's some interesting info elsewhere on that site, as well. I didn't know of the distinction between BIOS-based software RAID and true RAID... -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
