Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?
Steve Dondley wrote:
Is anyone out there running a AMD64 system with onboard raid
controllers? Any problems? I'm looking at buying a server with a
Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882G3NR motherboard with an onboard cotnroller
but the server complany states on their website that:
"Support for onboard RAID controllers has been depreciated in the
Linux 2.6 Kernel. If you desire RAID the system may be configured with
software RAID or you may select a hardware RAID controller."
Can anyone out there back this up or refute it?
Most cheap onboard "raid controllers" are merely
software raid anyway. They need no linux support
because linux has its own software raid solution that
works very well.
Set it to not be a raid in the bios setup, so you'll get plain disks.
Then, set up the raid in linux instead. You don't loose anything
this way, the "raid driver" for windows is just a software raid too,
and probably not nearly as good as the linux driver. Linux
sw raid has a history of outperforming some hw raid controllers too...
Helge Hafting
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