On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 07:46 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: > > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > > The Friday 2007-06-22 at 03:21 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: > > > > > <thread history: The ultimate goal here is to use the 'fake-raid' > > > controller built-in to the ASUS motherboard with the 4 SATA drives that > > > board can natively control *without* having to use a 5th IDE or external > > > drive just to boot the system> > > > > The ultimate goal should be to have the best raid 5 possible with the > > hardware you have ;-p > > > <snip> > > ...I did. In fact, in order to get the 5th drive to run my tests, I > had to cannibalize an older RedHat system that is 'wounded' because I > lost a cpu fan and damaged the cpu chip. I was going to replace the MB > in that system at some point but now, I may also be short a drive having > had to use it in what I thought was ample hardware; A new ASUS system > MB with 4 SATA drives and with a so-called hardware raid controller > built-in to the MB. As it turns out, that controller is a 'fake-raid' > which borrows cpu cycles but still, with the hardware I had, under > Windoze, the configuration would have worked (demonstrated), but I > refuse to contaminate my system with that OS and I believe anything > Windoze can do, Linux can (or should) be able to do better.
You are right that linux _should_ be able to do that same things that windows does. The problem is the s l o w adoption by the hardware providers in providing *proper* drivers for their hardware, like ATI and Nvidia are trying to do. This will not happen until they get together with the kernel developers to come up with a solution. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
