26 Mar
2006
26 Mar
'06
14:57
On Saturday 25 March 2006 21:54, Tom Peters wrote:
At 01:06 PM 3/25/2006 -0500, you wrote:
I am looking to build a new system and would like to setup a RAID 1 array with two 200GB SATA hard drives. The system will be running OpenSUSE v10. Can anyone recommend a good SATA RAID controller? How well does SATA RAID behave with SUSE Linux?
This article, called "Serial ATA (SATA) chipsets Linux support status" is absolutely required reading:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
He explains the difference between "real raid" under linux and "fake raid" and why you care.
-T
Thanks Tom! This will be most useful. Jesse