Re: RAID

On 1/1/06, Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip: fakeraid adapters]

> They ARE capable of presenting a single disk via int 13h, that is their
> entire point. That is what makes them hardware (fake)raid and is what
> allows them to be bootable. In windows you load a driver that also
> presents a single disk to the OS, but in linux the driver only shows the
> individual disks, and leaves the raiding up to the device mapper.

If they have that capability, they certainly don't use it. grub and
linux should not see the disks that make up the array, only the array
itself, if int 13h was used properly.

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