On Wednesday 13 September 2006 13:09, Brett Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 01:11:08PM +0200, Tomas Synek wrote:
> The on-board RAID controllers and most add-in RAID controllers sold > through normal end-user channels are software RAID. Hardware RAID > controllers are very expensive, have a dedicated CPU (well SPU, storage > processor unit) and dedicated RAM for cache. Some even have dedicated > battery backups for the cache. > > Even though you have to use the on board BIOS of the Silicon Image or > any other consumer RAID controller to configure the drives for RAID use, > the actual processing of the RAID is done by the OS and drivers, so it's > still software RAID. Thank you to all who have replied. I have read the docs and think I know what I should do, except one thing. The docs do not make it clear how to set the bios, should I set it for normal ide drives and the use linux raid? Or should I set the raid in bios (ie create the arrays) and load the correct raid drivers and then use linux raid? Thanks again Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
