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On 6/26/06, Catalin Trifu <catalin@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Why not use software RAID ? You don't necessarily need |
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> the hardware RAID and as far as I know software RAID works just as |
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> fine as the hardware RAID. |
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Hi, |
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Well, usually hardware raid is much better, at least if you want |
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raid5/6, for raid 0 or 1 it is not such a big difference, but all of |
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these on board raid chips are not hardware raid at all (fakeraid), you |
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just have less influence/clue on what it's doing. |
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The only reason to do this would be if you want to be able to read |
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these partitions from windows. |
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If you don't need this it's much better to just use the tried and |
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trusted linux software raid, I did the same on my nforce4 board. |
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It's quite easy actually, and you don't need an initrd at all. |
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These might be of help, if you decide to go that route: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml#software-raid |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_on_Software_RAID |
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