On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Jens Benecke wrote: > thanks for your answer. What hardware RAID1 options would I have here that > are somewhat affordable? I see 3ware 2-drive RAID controllers for ¤120.- > here, and Promise UDMA for ¤60.- > > I hear Promise only offers binary drivers and is only "software RAID", is > the 3ware solution worth the extra ¤60 (less hassle and more > compatbility)? I have never tried to boot off of a 3ware raid, but to Linux it looks like a scsi drive so I would imagine that it should work well. Someone else who has actually done this for real is probably better suited to answer. I never use software raid for the partitions that need to be present at boot, since I have had total nightmares with root mirroring on other OSes (Solaris and DEC OSF), and I feel that backups of those partitions are better than the problems one might run into with software root mirroring. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
