On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 11:12 +0800, Hadders wrote: > Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:09:46PM -0800, Ubence Quevedo wrote: > > > >> raid solutions [I know it isn't truly hardware raid], or should I use > >> Fedora's built in software raid for what I want to accomplish. I > >> > > > > Linux's built-in software raid is more sophisticated, better tested, and > > probably better performing than any of these bios-assisted software raids. > > Use it instead. > > > > > I get the feeling that these cheap hardware raid solutions we get for > "free" on the mainboard are sudo-raid-wannabes and that the "driver" you > have to load to use them with Windows is just software RAID... > > Can anyone confirm that is the behavior...? > If you need a special "RAID" driver to drive it, it's software. If you just need the kernel's built-in driver (read: 3ware, LSI megaraid, SCSI, etc), it's hardware. - Gilboa
