Hi, I just found following words on the web, this maybe help us to understanded whether hardware RAID or not. :) Many controllers on the market, or coming on the market are sold as "RAID controllers", but this term have become increasingly ambiguous over time. * Sometimes the term refers to controllers where the OS driver is mostly unaware of the underlying disk devices attached to the controller. The OS driver only sees RAID arrays, and uses RAID-specific commands to read/write data. These controllers are what I call true hardware RAID. * Sometimes the term refers to controllers where the OS driver and card's on-board flash BIOS provide 100 percent of the RAID capability. This is called software RAID, or less flatteringly, fake RAID. * Occasionally, the term refers to controllers that have special features designed to enhance RAID, but still the OS driver must use normal ATA or SCSI commands to talk to the underlying disk devices. I classify these unique controllers as RAID accelerators, as they fall somewhere in between hardware RAID and software RAID. you can get the more info about RAID & Linux, from http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html Thanks Flex
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM, in message <1436d8d40803280019o7eaa9a35vee30265a5c172553@mail.gmail.com>, "Birger Kollstrand" <birger.kollstrand@googlemail.com> wrote: Hi ,
Can you please elaborate on what you mean that hw raid is always a bad idea?
Regards Birger
2008/3/28, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:31:40PM -0400, Andreas van dem Helge wrote:
Nothing. Can not install and boot into a desktop with either 10.3, 11 A2 or A3. RAID driver isn't detected at all in any version.
software raid? You should never use hardware raid, it just is a bad idea for so many reasons...
As the latest 11 releases don't work, I'd guess that Linux isn't working on this chipset yet, sorry. Try working with the kernel.org kernel developers to get it up and running. Or contact AMD, they have been very good in the past about making sure their hardware works properly on Linux, I'm kind of supprised this doesn't.
thanks,
greg k-h
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