On Monday 13 October 2003 22:17, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > "BIOS RAIDs" is a rather sweet euphemism for "crippled pretense of > hardware RAID, which is in fact emulated by software". I've got no > problem with telling the users that what they have _is_ software RAID > and needs to be treated as such. I completely agree with you, and I will make sure my drivers print "Software RAID" all over the screen when it loads :-) Ok, at least on one line then. I'm not on a mission to justify the marketing methods of chip manufactureres. Having said that, BIOS RAID does solve a few problems inherent to software RAID's, particularly the boot process and consistency of RAID's between operating systems. I want to leverage those advantages and I think that this is best done with an autodetecting driver. > Windows doesn't use the BIOS to access the device at all; the > corresponding hardware drivers emulate that. I know, but the BIOS supports its boot up to 32-bit mode. Which means you could see the drive from DOS, etc. And putting the RAID in BIOS does have some advantages for the average PC motherboard. Best regards, Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
