Re: [opensuse] 10.2 no RAID to 11.0 RAID 1

On 2008/09/20 15:37 (GMT-0400) Per Jessen composed:

Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:

I see 11.0 has an option under the partitioner in YAST for RAID and I
am wondering if thee 11.0 install will allow me to create the RAID
array and set it up if it detects two drives of the same size and with
identical partitions?

Yes it will.

If you have a RAID1 BIOS built into the motherboard, are there any reasons
not to use it, as opposed to just using pure software RAID1?
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