On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:34:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > The only __definitive__ way to know would be to take the netinst CD to > the box, boot it up and check dmesg (and the installer screens) and see > if it sees the drives. Note that embedded sata "raid" controllers are > generally fake raid. You're better off just using them as normal disk > interfaces (don't try to configure as raid) and using software raid from > the installer CD.
This is exactly what I want to know. I 'guess' if it officially supports redhat and suse, debian will have no problem seeing the hardware. But I am not sure about the so called embedded raid, and could you explain a little bit why it is 'fake'? Also, is there any other penalty or downside for using software raid? As I know, for RAID 1, the performance is not affected much. And the server will merely be used for backup. Regards, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
