Paul VanGundy wrote: > Thanks for the prompt replay David. Below are the answers to your questions: > >> What hardware/distro etc are you using? >> Is this an expensive (hundreds of £) card? Or an onboard/motherboard chipset? > The distro is Suse 10.1. As a bit of trivia, Neil (who wrote and maintains linux RAID) works for Suse. > It is an onboard chipset. In which case it's not likely to be hardware RAID. See: http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html >> Once you answer this then it may be worth suggesting using sw-raid (in which >> case we can help out) or pointing you elsewhere... You should probably configure the BIOS to use >> That's one of the big reasons proprietary drivers suck on linux. > > Ok. So this chipset has the ability to use an Intel based RAID. Would > that be better? mmm, see the link above... In almost any case where you are considering 'onboard' raid, linux software raid (using md and mdadm) is a better choice. Start here: http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Main_Page (feel free to correct it or ask here for clarification) Also essential reading is the mdadm man page. David - 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
