Re: [SLE] raid question

From: Silviu Marin-Caea (silviu_marin-caea_at_genesys.ro)
Date: 03/02/05

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    On Monday 28 February 2005 13:06, Richard Bos wrote:

    > 2) How does one enable hardware raid. The motherboard has an onboard
    > hardware raid controller. The controller does not really seem to be
    > supported by linux (Promise 378). Anyway, I ask this out of interest ;)
    > In case of hardware should it be done via the bios or completely different?

    That's called fakeraid, because it's not true hardware raid. You're better
    off with linux' software raid, if you don't dual boot with windows.

    http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html 

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