Re: atacontrol software or hardware raid

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ar RAID devices are almost always software/BIOS RAID. In this case intel matrix raid is software RAID provided by the system BIOS. The it's always better to use gmirror. not mentioning more flexibility (you do not have to mirror whole drives) ___

Re: atacontrol software or hardware raid

2009-01-25 Thread Josh Paetzel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > How can I detect if system has Software or hardware raid? Since in manual > page: > > The atacontrol command can also be used to create purely software RAID > arrays in systems that do NOT have a "real" hardware RAID car

Re: atacontrol software or hardware raid

2009-01-25 Thread Josh Paetzel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > How can I detect if system has Software or hardware raid? Since in manual > page: > > The atacontrol command can also be used to create purely software RAID > arrays in systems that do NOT have a "real" hardware RAID car

atacontrol software or hardware raid

2009-01-25 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
How can I detect if system has Software or hardware raid? Since in manual page: The atacontrol command can also be used to create purely software RAID arrays in systems that do NOT have a "real" hardware RAID card such as a Highpoint or Promise card. A common scenario is a 1U server su