3Ware RAID Controlers

From: Leo (huberl_at_student.ethz.ch)
Date: 08/25/04


Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:34:15 +0200

Hi,

I'm a little bit confused about the 3Ware Raid Controllers. They are said to
be true hardware based RAID controlers.
But why does the linux kernel need a driver to handle the controller?
I thought that with a hardware based RAID controler the operating system
doesn't even know about the
existence of the RAID - it thinks of one big HD. Is this correct?



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