But really, how "smart" is that? Essentially you have an IDE controller pretending to the BIOS to be a SCSI card at boot time, which can read the bootsector from either drive? How is it much better than a regular BIOS which lets you set HDD0 as primary, and HDD1 as secondary boot? (Assuming your BIOS doesn't fall over if a drive fails) You could set lilo or grub on each drive, and load an initrd with a Linux-RAID driver and away you go fully raided with no "special" firmware. :-) Or did I miss something? >Well, the reason to use the Promise (or Highpoint for that matter) is that >it is sort of a "firmware raid". It gives you the ability to boot from >the raided volume via the firmware support on the card. From the actual >performance perspective all of the work is done in the driver. The >booting part is the key. > >Later, >Bob > > > > >yoram@xxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent by: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx >08/18/2002 07:39 AM >Please respond to ataraid-list > > > To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > cc: > Subject: RE: why not use the promise scusi emulation driver ? > > > >This is EXACTLY where I was coming from so the next question is, doesn't >it >make more sense to use Linux Softraid? > >Yoram > > >-----Original Message----- >From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Arjan van de Ven >Sent: 18 August 2002 13:36 >To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: why not use the promise scusi emulation driver ? > >Their RAID is 100% software.... >
