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Re: why fake raid on motherboards?



In <[🔎] 20090425045724.GA2212@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
>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. 

Compared to software raid?  No.

>It seems
>to have the potential to cause problems. Am I
>correct?

Having never used "fake" RAID, I've never experienced any issues with it.  It 
does seem harder to configure in Linux.
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