Raid 1

[WA9ALS - John]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Barnett-Cormack" <s.barnett-cormack at lancaster.ac.uk>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 6:21 AM
Subject: RE: Raid 1


> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>
> > Am Mo, den 16.02.2004 schrieb Sam Barnett-Cormack um 12:08:
> > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > >
> > > > Am Mo, den 16.02.2004 schrieb kaze um 04:57:
> > > > > I might be totally wrong, but if you set up the RAID as hardware
RAID, from
> > > > > the OS's point of view there is only one hard drive - so there is
_no_ OS /
> > > > > software stuff to do.
> > > >
> > > > You are wrong, in the case you are speaking of those "fake" RAID
> > > > adapters like the Belkin IDE the OP asked about or the low budget
> > > > Promise or HighPoint controllers. they are just BIOS supported pure
> > > > software (with special, often closed source driver) controllers.
> > > > Speaking of IDE RAID controllers only the 3ware controllers are real
> > > > hardware RAID controllers. They have an own logic chip doing the
job.
> > >
> > > Actually, a lot of these cheap IDE RAID controllers really do do
> > > something, and don't require any drivers. They do require a braindead
OS
> > > which trusts the BIOS completely. Of course, they generally do only do
> > > RIAD0 and or RAID1, which are very light on the computation.
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Do you have specific examples about controllers (chips) working as
> > RAID0/1 without any additional driver and on which OS? At least you are
> > not speaking about Linux, aren't you?
>
> Not linux, no - as it's not braindead enough to let the BIOS tell it
> what's going on. Windows is - the card in my desktop at work works with
> no extra drivers under windows 2k, at least. Windows doesn't even say it
> knows it's RAID. The setup is done entirely through the card's BIOS.

So if I get a new Dell server with hardware RAID, it that going to work
EASILY as a single drive with FC1??