[nycbug-talk] AMD Raid question. . .

[alex at pilosoft.com]

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

> > Hint: Most of the "hardware" raid is *not* hardware raid.
> > 
> > http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html
> > 
> > Controller fired.
> 
> . . . aware of the grey area, but. . .
> 
> then how come i could do raid 1 or 10, or at least it tells me i can. .  
> and these are the boards and controllers that iron systems sells. . .
You don't really do raid 1 or raid 0 on it either. It is fakeraid -
software raid implemented by the driver. And it supports "raid 1" or "raid 
0".

just because $vendor sells it, it doesn't mean its proper hardware raid.

-alex