Re: SATA, RAID, A8N-E, 3800+ help

[Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com>]

Alle 03:03, sabato 28 gennaio 2006, Anthony DeRobertis ha scritto:
> Helge Hafting wrote:
> > The fact that you _need_ a raid driver in window is a strong hint that
> > the raid is implemented in software - a hw raid controller can be made to
> > look like a single disk on a standard controller - both linux and windows
> > can then handle it without special drivers.
>
> Most all true hardware raid cards require drivers. At least under Linux,
> and I believe under Windows as well.

The differences is between needing a "special" RAID driver (most of fake 
harware raids) and a simple SCSI one (like high-end ibm raid controllers: 
real hardware raid).

There is this page telling the differences and more:

http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html

And btw linux software raid outperforms most fake hardware raid (software 
ones), so you really no not need an "hardware" raid controller on linux, just 
a bunch on disks.

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