On Tuesday 09 February 2010 19:03:39 Neil Walker wrote: > Hey guys, > > There seems to be a lot of confusion over this RAID thing. > > Hardware RAID does not use partitions. The entire drive is used (or, > actually, the amount defined in setting up the array) and all I/O is > handled by the BIOS on the RAID controller. The array appears as a > single drive to the OS and can then be partitioned and formatted like > any other drive. > > Software RAID can be created within existing MSDOS-style partitions - > indeed must be if the array is to be bootable. > > The OP seems to be doing the latter so the comments about removing a > drive and re-formatting are perfectly valid. > > In order not to confuse the matter further, I deliberately left out the > pseudo-hardware controllers on many modern motherboards. ;)
Don't get me started on those ;) The reason I use Linux Software Raid is because: 1) I can't afford hardware raid adapters 2) It's generally faster then hardware fakeraid -- Joost
