On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:58:23PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 06:52, Charles A. Crayne wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:02:29 -0500 > > "Peter Larsen" <plarsen@famlarsen.homelinux.com> wrote: > > > > :I'm never going to get used to the oxymoron IDE RAID :) > > > > If you think that "IDE RAID" is an oxymoron, what terms > > of abuse do you reserve for "SOFTWARE RAID", which seems to be the > > only form of RAID which Linux actually understands? > > linux currently understands several forms of software raid > 1) "native" raid, as in "md" > 2) Promise software raid0 > 3) Highpoint software raid0 > > Promise Fasttrack raid IS software raid. Everything is done in software > on the host CPU. Be it in the pdcraid driver or in the binary only > driver you can download from promise. Hardware raid means all (or most) > of the work is done on a cpu or other hardware on the card, which isn't > the case for promise or highpoint raid. Are you sure that the FastTrack 100 TX2 is actually software RAID? If that's the case, why wouldn't one just put one drive on each of their MB ATA controllers and run software RAID on the system? I have a client for whom I'm gathering info on an install on one of these systems... 'Course, if I go the MB connector-route we'd lose the hot-swap, I guess. Hmm, will Linux support the hot-swap, or is that not controlled by the HW either? -M -- In light of the terrorist attack on the U.S.: They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
