Re: Intel RAID controller -- IGNORE MegaRAID link

[craigwhite at azapple.com (Craig White)]

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 11:36 -0700, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/010021.html
> > provides the longer view with a link to the original
> > concept but mind you, these are for CentOS 4
> 
> The MegaRAID is an i960 solution.
> The ICH7R is a FRAID solution.
> 
> MegaRAID has intelligence and a SCSI driver.
> The ICH7R _may_ eventually have an ATA "hack," but I
> seriously doubt it will work well.
> 
> In other words, don't bother with it.
----
he asked how to make it work, I gave him a suggestion on that and didn't
offer any opinion on the value of it since I didn't know what its
capabilities were. I think you have offered a far more educated
assessment of the relative value than I could have.

Craig