Raid 1

[Sam Barnett-Cormack]

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.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack
Software Developer                           |  Student of Physics & Maths
UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk)  |  Lancaster University