[SWLUG] Failed Raid 1

[Alan Pope]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:23:30AM +0000, Steve Anderson wrote:
> On 22/01/2008, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:48:32AM +0000, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > > My Parents have windows[1] installed on a RAID 1 (mirror)  volume.
> > > The raid controller is built into the motherboard and presents the two
> > > disks as a single volume to the operating system.
> >
> > Likely not "proper" hardware RAID but "fakeraid" software RAID mostly
> > implemented as a Windows driver.
> 
> Not necessarily. My Windows box at home has onboard RAID controlled at
> the BIOS level, IIRC.

Many fakeraid controllers have this capability too. My toshiba laptop for 
example has an option to "enable RAID" in the BIOS, but the low level stuff 
is implemented in the Windows driver, not the BIOS.

Having a BIOS configuration tool does not make it hardware RAID.

Cheers,
Al.