On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 07:46 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2007-06-22 at 03:21 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote:
The ultimate goal should be to have the best raid 5 possible with the hardware you have ;-p
<snip>
...I did. In fact, in order to get the 5th drive to run my tests, I had to cannibalize an older RedHat system that is 'wounded' because I lost a cpu fan and damaged the cpu chip. I was going to replace the MB in that system at some point but now, I may also be short a drive having had to use it in what I thought was ample hardware; A new ASUS system MB with 4 SATA drives and with a so-called hardware raid controller built-in to the MB. As it turns out, that controller is a 'fake-raid' which borrows cpu cycles but still, with the hardware I had, under Windoze, the configuration would have worked (demonstrated), but I refuse to contaminate my system with that OS and I believe anything Windoze can do, Linux can (or should) be able to do better.
You are right that linux _should_ be able to do that same things that windows does. The problem is the s l o w adoption by the hardware providers in providing *proper* drivers for their hardware, like ATI and Nvidia are trying to do. This will not happen until they get together with the kernel developers to come up with a solution. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org