On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 12:23:37PM -0800, Steven Raymond wrote: > > > > there exists no such thing as hpt hardware raid > > it's all in the driver, nothing in hardware > > I'm not too raid savvy (that should be obvious ;); but, what precisely > does that chip on the motherboard painted 370 on it do, then? What would > be the difference between a HPT370-enabled motherboard and another board > with simply an additional IDE controller on it? There is surely some > hardware component present, as when the system boots up you can hit ctrl-S > I think it is to build your raid arrays and examine the disks. it's called "different bios" > drivers. This seems to put it squarely in a class of hardware-based > implementation to me. ehm no. in hardware raid something on the hardware does the work; hpt isn't that. > I've heard the same criticism of the Promise raid solutions- are they too > manufactured by HPT? Please educate me. same trick.... slightly different eeprom contents for the bios, and a different driver ;)
