Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hadmut Danisch wrote: >> A software raid controller? Never heard of such a beast before. I >> always thought that there are exactly two ways to do raid, one way is >> to have it all hidden in the controller, which makes the >> RAID mirror appear as just a single disk to the kernel, and the other >> way is to use the kernel software raid (configured with >> mdadm). I've never heard of a software raid controller, where the >> kernel must >> do the work itself. After all, what's the controller's job and >> why is it called a RAID controller then? > > Marketing. > > Read http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html Well... your site doesn't list this "HostRAID" euphemism for software RAID on SCSI ;-) Seriously, could you add ICH7-R to your fakeraid list, too? It appears to be software RAID, too. And perhaps a link to <http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html>. -- Matthias Andree - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
