-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2015-09-27 a las 15:46 +0200, Xen escribió:
"Carlos E. R." <> schreef:
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.
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).
Well, there is. For some, at least. Linux is capable of using such fake raids, but as I have always shied away from them, I can't tell you how.
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.
Well, you see, we call them fake raid because the processing runs in the CPU. The heavy work is done by the main CPU, /wasting/ cycles, that could be used for something else. In software. On a (real) hardware raid, the entire processing is done by its chipset, in hardware. It is not simply "a driver" :-) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlYIB9EACgkQja8UbcUWM1zwVgD8C5ru7bcHI5f4J/vNRxQD0Jx/ 8UwePykdRZ6Wm/6fSuMBAIau10T27ti/lWqW+0awYcCTlZgDHOgt5aIrioHyaqW6 =3kAR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----