On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:09:55PM +0900, Nils Valentin wrote:
> so what you 2 are saying is that bsically a Sil3114 is as good or
> bad as any other software raid with the exception that it can start
> a boot process while on the other hand being proprietory ??
Yes, that's about it. Just two points:
If I understand it correctly, the SiI3114 chip doesn't know
anything about the boot process -- that piece of functionality is
dependent on and provided by the BIOS of the card (or motherboard).
Note also that it's SiI (capital i), not Sil (lower case L).
> If I create a Software raid with f.e. Debian and I decide to Dual boot into
> Mandrake, Suse ... whatever should that work ?
Yes, provided the other OSes know about the software RAID array
you've created (so you need the kernel support, the user-space tools,
and whatever user-space configuration is necessary).
Hugo.
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