Problem with sata2 and raid1.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 17:52:14 +0200,
  "Erik P. Olsen" <epodata at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is that I don't know what I want except I want raid 1 and I 
> haven't yet found out what the difference is between dmraid and what you 
> call "normal software raid". I plan. however, in the near future to install 
> fedora 8 on my IDE disks and then play with my sata disks in installing 
> fedora 9 in different sorts of raid configurations. I hope that will teach 
> me what the best solution will be for me.

dmraid may allow you to make arrays visible on Windows, but will tie you
to that hardware (if the card fails you will likely need to replace it
with the exact same type of card).

The previous discussion indicated that this was just a cheap raid card.
So that unless you are dual booting with Windows or can't shut off the
raid feature in the bios, you want to use software raid.