[Sussex] Lots of IDE drives...

Alan Pope alan.pope at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 08:26:55 UTC 2005


On 19/09/05, Martin Easton <m4martin at btinternet.com> wrote:

> As far as I have seen with a desktop PC, the best manufacturer for RAID
> cards is "PROMISE". Have a look and see what you can find. I am new to Linux
> so have no idea what it can understand. I suspect almost anything!
> 

Do note though that promise cards are not really hardware raid. They
still present a raid set to the OS as individual disks. The driver in
windows actually does the raid in software. Same goes for Linux.

Cheers,
Al.




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