[nycbug-talk] AMD Raid question. . .

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, George R. wrote:

> I just got a new 2u Opteron that I'm putting a BSD on. . .
> 
> I'm doing hardware RAID (leave me alone with any software raid pro's),
> and for some reason, the raid firmware only comes up with Raid 0, 1, and
> 10 (and spare).  There are three x 300g SATA drives in this box, so why
> doesn't Raid 5 show up?  Isn't three the minimum for all controllers for
> raid 5?
Hint: Most of the "hardware" raid is *not* hardware raid. 

http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html

Controller fired.

-alex