Hi Vicky,
first of all, could you please cut down the line length to about 72
characters or less? This makes reading the mail with text mode MUAs
much nicer.
"Vicky Clarke"
Out of interest, why do you say 'fake raid'? I thought Promise cards actually did something plausibly comparable to real RAID..
Nope, at least the cheap Promise and HighPoint RAID controllers do the RAID in Software. Under Win* the driver and the BIOS supply the RAID functionality and under Linux the software RAID driver md is used. The pdcraid and hptraid drivers only make the disk layout understandable for the md driver. For real hardware IDE RAID, take a look at 3wares Escalade controllers (http://www.3ware.com) and note their higher prices. Philipp