On Saturday 10 November 2001 04:11 pm, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > With the release of motherboards such as the ABIT KT7A-raid (highpoint > chip) and and addons like the promise ide raid cards, will Mandrake be > supporting these boards out of the box in the next version - 8.2 (that > is, install and boot from the raid device) > > BillK
Look, it is software RAID with a $30 extra price tag for a BIOS add-on, and it is secret, proprietary, etc. It is software RAID and linux software RAID is superior, because it offers RAID 0, 1, 4, and 5 with non-identical disks while these fake hardware RAIDs offer RAID 0 and 1 on identical disks. There is a project for some GPL support so people can read their WinRAID partitions off this junk, but calling it junk is probably being kind. Check at linux-ide.org for a link to the project and see what the actual overall linux support is at www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html OF course if the project is successful, we will probably try to include it, but mostly for those who have Windows partitions under RAID0 that they want to access. It is easier, and the performance is better to use linux software RAID, even with these chipsets and their extra PROM around. Civileme
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