hi ya arne On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Arne Goetje wrote:
> > none of the "onboard raid" stuff worked in the past ... as far as i'm > > concerned > > > > if you use hw raid, you're stuck with the sw they give you to > > maintain/watch yoru raid system ... > > > > if you use sw raid, you can do anything you want imaginable > > within reason to baby sit your raid box > > > > well, thanks so far to all who replied... > one more question: it seems that the vendor of the onboard RAID > controller supplies a binary kernel module for the RAID function. > However, this is proprietary stuff. yup.. you can use what one outfit gives you and be locked into their widgets and their [in]abilities to fix serious bugs [fast] or go opensource onboard raid stuff does NOT work ... as they claim .. ( "raid" ) and in my definitions .. "hands off raid" where each of the drive gets physically disconnected and i expect it to keep working and resync when the new replacement is swapped in one or more drives at a time, depending on your raid config > There is also a software RAID driver which is open source. software raid driver is in the linux kernel itself .. anything is the vendors (modified) raid widgets .. > Can I enable HW RAID in the Controller menu and use it on the win2k > partition and can I use software RAID in Linux, or will that mess up > everything? i dont think you can mix and match depending on the "os" since its hardware controlled - unless you tweek the controller or the bios each time you reboot to the other partition > Or is it better to stick to the binary module? never use binary anything .... - have the source code available to *-you-* so that "somebody" can fix any buggs for you c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]