- Am I supposed to use md to do the array ?Yes, because in case of hardware failure this is the option which leaves you with a bootable system in case of hardware failure - AFAIK.
Okay, but that raises the question of under what circumstances SHOULD I (or anyone for that matter) use ataraid ?
- Is there some way I can still use ataraid ? - If I do use ataraid, should I break the mirror in the BIOS, or should I leave it enabled ?
You do not want that because the driver was not fault tolerant at all last time I looked. Iff (if and only if) you decide to use ataraid nevertheless, leave the mirror settings in the BIOS enabled.
Given that the HPT card doesn't actually do anything more than a normal IDE controller once the machine is booting, what does the "RAID1" mirror setting actually do ? It seems that all it does is allows the BIOS to automatically boot off the 2nd drive in a mirror if the first one is unavailable, but that could also be acomplished manually by using the "set boot drive" menu option in the HPT BIOS.
So if I use md, and am therefore not going to use HPT drivers once the OS is up, is there really any point in having the BIOS believe that there's a RAID array over it believing that it has two unrelated hard drives attached ?
For ataraid: kneel down before your creator and pray.
I get the feeling you don't have very much confidence in ataraid :)
Check the linux-kernel and linux-raid archives, they surely contain additional information you could use.
Will do.
