"Carlos E. R."
Those are not hardware raid at all.
They are called "fake raid" for a reason.
A hardware raid is transparent and needs no driver whatsoever.
Hey, I didn't know that before I bought it. Well, I must say I primarily bought it to have 2 extra eSata ports at the back, so it doesn't matter in that way. Here is a ...cute thing. I defined a raid array in the thing (in its BIOS) but obviously that didn't do anything in Linux. There was no driver for it (what's the point, really). After, I just ignored that, and installed Linux/software raid. Then I tried to remove the 'array' again from the RAID card's bios. And I couldn't because it told me it would wipe my partition table if I tried. Great. Now the system is still having that "fake array" that doesn't do anything but luckily you can disable the BIOS of the thing completely, I believe. I also cannot remove the array unless both disks are attached. So the only way to remove the array from the card is to connect two empty disks or make sure I have backup of the partitions and how that doesn't fail completely ;-). Really sweet. Fake raid. But of course, that was my point, buster, but the card is hardware and it has a 'hardware BIOS' it's just that the RAID itself is not hardware. That's why I called it that, and you knew perfectly what I meant. cheers, B. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org