SuperMicro 5013

[Jonathan Horne]

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 at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
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

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