On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > Thanks for the explanation. Please help me understand why do Hardware > Vendors provide onboard storage raid controller chipset on the > motherboard (fakeraid if its a software raid.). Is it a marketing > term for selling servers. Since it does not add value at all strictly > speaking due to the fact that the OS is unable to determine the > Logical drives. > > Awaiting your earnest reply. > > Regards > > Kaushal > _______________________________________________ Frankly, that's something you'd need to ask the vendors directly. Everyone else can just give you speculation, or their idea of what they think the real reason behind this is. That said, many onboard RAID chipsets work fine with various Linux distributions, and all of them work fine with Windows. In the case of Windows you also need to install the drivers while installing Windows. And this is cause the OS developers, whether Linux, UNIX or Windows don't always have the drivers readily available to include in the installation files but instead rely on the hardware developers to supply the drivers on disk, or on the internet. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos