On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 02:24:26AM +1200, Richard Barrington wrote: > 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? the bios also emulates raid for MS-DOS :)
