On Dec 15, 2007, at 4:36 PM, SJS wrote:
The promise of hardware RAID (for me) was transparency -- but this was never delivered, so far as I know. You had to have a RAID-aware OS to use hardware RAID, instead of having a device that could transparently give you RAID benefits on "legacy" and small systems.
There do exists raid systems that will do all the raid for you without the host OS knowing about it. However, you then need an OS that is aware of your SCSI controller. Or your SATA controller. Or your FireWire controller. Or your USB controller.
Having to complain about drivers is silly, though, since you still need SCSI, SATA, FireWire, USB, etc. drivers for THOSE to work.
So where do you draw the line? Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
