On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:20:53AM -0500, Marc Horowitz wrote: > I've read the last few months of posts, and I'm still confused about > something. > > If chipsets such as the Promise PDC20265 and Highpoint HPT372 are just > extra IDE controllers, is the *only* reason for the special linux > support to be able to share arrays with windows? Basically yes. The only other nice thing is being able to boot from it. > > And the $64,000 question (or maybe the $50 question :-) If I'm not > going to run windows on a machine, is there any reason to get a > motherboard with a "RAID" controller? The only reason I can think of > is the extra IDE channels; if I do get a RAID board for this reason, > is there any reason not to use /dev/mdX? I personally prefer md because it avoids a fundamental issue with performance (ataraid needs to some requests up due to the offset it gets from the partition table; md never has to "abuse" requets)
