[K12OSN] Woe is me: Onboard SCSI/RAID Controller

[Mario Guerra]

El Martes, 12 de Octubre de 2004 03:54 PM, Brian Chase escribió:
> I notice there's alot of discussion here about the different on-board
> RAID controllers.  Most, if not all, SCSI controllers, on-board or
> otherwise, should be found by any Linux distributions.  The problem you
> have is the RAID chipset manufacturers that are in bed with Microsoft
> and take hardware design shortcuts on the actual hardware RAID and
> borrow resources from the Windows OS.  Promise Technologies is just one
> notorious for this with their onboard IDE RAID implementations.
>
> There's countless ways to approach this, as indicated by the variety of
> responses on this thread, but I'd give the idea of disabling the
> motherboard RAID a try and consider 3ware controller cards for real
> Hardware RAID in Linux if you're doing anything with IDE drives.  My
> understanding is that the newest K12LTSP's come with SATA support does
> actually recognize an on-board Promise SATA chipset, but it would
> require specific checking on the chipset before money is spent.
>

I understand why software modems exist. But software RAID?. It's exceedingly 
ridiculous. If you need RAID you need speed and reliability. In fact, I've 
witnessed HP RAID-over-IDE implementation. How absurd a concept.

Mario Guerra