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Re: Building a RAID system



On (01/02/05 13:48), Paul Brook wrote:
> To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Cc: Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>
> From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:48:29 +0000
> Subject: Re: Building a RAID system
> 
> On Tuesday 01 February 2005 13:24, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > On (01/02/05 13:35), seb@frankengul.org wrote:
> > > You're describing hardware RAID handled by a dedicated piece of hardware
> > > (the SCSI controler), whereas he's describing software RAID handled by
> > > the kernel (soft only implementation).
> >
> > Hi Seb
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand...he said:
> >
> > "I turned raid on in the bios for the two channels that I have the hard
> > drives hooked up to but when I got to the partitioning section of the
> > installation I was confused.  The only way I could figure out how to get
> > the raid going was to use the "software raid" function in the partition
> > menu."
> >
> > If he turned on Raid in the BIOS, is that not Hardware Raid?
> 
> See http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html
> The nv controller isn't mentioned specifically, but the same applies as to the 
> via controller.
> 
> Paul
Thanks Paul

Regards

Clive

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