The advantage is that a RAIDed FAT partition that I run Win2K on can be read by a RAIDed Linux install. If I did sw RAID in Win2K, I couldn't read it from Linux. Craig Knox wrote: > > > 2) I'm looking at a Promise 100 RAID controller, is there any > > difference in support for the 100 and the 100TX2 series of > > cards? I like the 66 MHz FSB capacity of the card, and might > > future proof me a little. > > > > 3) Does anyone know if the 100TX2 can be hacked into the RAID > > version like the "normal" 66 and 100 cards can? > > You can just run Linux's normal software raid across the drives. The > raid version of the card cost me over twice as much as the non raid > version, and apart from having a BIOS which sets up the arrays there is > no extra benefits. > I should have done more research but mainly deal with SCSI and assumed a > RAID card would do RAID in hardware - not software. > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
