Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

[Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengquan@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 06:22:43PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] 20090424225855.GA608@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang 
> wrote:
> >Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers are fake raid
> >and the debian community seems to advise using software raid in debian.
> 
> It allows lesser operating systems to boot from software RAID-1 (and I think 
> RAID-0).

So this seems to be a downside of the embedded raid controller. It seems
to have the potential to cause problems. Am I
correct?

Thanks,

-- 
Zhengquan