On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:05:54PM -0000, Wynne, Conor wrote:
> Q: Anyone know which distributions have support for IDE-RAID controllers?
> Specifically IDE-RAID 100/133 Dunno the chip yet.
Vorsicht ! A lot of these so-called IDE-RAID chipsets are not doing hardware
RAID (*) but are actually providing their own software RAID via a special
'doze driver. This IS not true of them all e.g. 3Ware but it's true of most
of the cheapies e.g. Promise (at least the one I bought, which I use only as
an ATA-100 controller in an older box).
> We already have central heating in the house, its gas too :)
Do you already have big speakers on your HiFi ? You'll need them to hear
anything over those fans :-)
Niall
(*) All RAID is of course software, but generally when one refers to
hardware RAID, one means a RAID system with a dedicated CPU which the
cheapies don't have - what do you expect for 50 Euro :-)
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