raid controller recommendation

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Chris Debono wrote:

> As far as I know, promise store some of its config somewhere on the hard
> disk (most probably in the boot sector). I noticed this when I set up a
> mirror with 2 hard disks on one controller and installed RH9. I swapped the
> controller with another one which was unconfigured and on power up it
> recognized the drivers as a mirror automatically so I assume it is writing
> something on the disks. The model I used was the TX2PRO. 

All HW raid boards store their own raid format in the hard disks. So, it's
_impossible_ to extract the DATA out of the HW RAID board.