On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 at 11:49am, Holger Kiehl wrote > In my opinion no. Most of the cheaper hardware raids are really just > software raid solutions. For the more expansive once always remember > you will always need drivers and there is no guarentee that you > will get them in two or three years. Some vendors do no longer exist > or no longer support that product. I fully agree on avoiding cheap "hardware" RAID cards. Regarding drivers going away, though, the 3ware drivers are open source and have been in the kernel for a long time. If 3ware were to disappear (unlikely), I'd be willing to bet that the drivers stay supported by the community. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University - 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
