On (01/02/05 08:34), Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:24:15PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > > 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? > > No it isn't. It is proprietary software raid managed by a bios > extension and custom drivers (once the OS and drivers take over from the > bios). It is entirely done in software. > > > When I installed software Raid1 on those two servers recently, I didn't > > implement anything in the BIOS, it was all done in Debian. > > As it should be. Better to use open software raid than someone's secret > proprietary software raid that won't work if you have to move to a new > motherboard later. Thanks .... and to Hugo ;)
When I feel energetic I might go back and reinstall the two original servers running H/W Raid but they have been running fine over the last two years and the machines are pretty old (HP LHPros 8 years) and so it is more likely they'll be replaced. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]