On 26/06/06, Friedrich Göpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/26/06, Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why not use software RAID ? You don't necessarily need
> the hardware RAID and as far as I know software RAID works just as
> fine as the hardware RAID.
>
Hi,
Well, usually hardware raid is much better, at least if you want
raid5/6, for raid 0 or 1 it is not such a big difference, but all of
these on board raid chips are not hardware raid at all (fakeraid), you
just have less influence/clue on what it's doing.
The only reason to do this would be if you want to be able to read
these partitions from windows.
If you don't need this it's much better to just use the tried and
trusted linux software raid, I did the same on my nforce4 board.
It's quite easy actually, and you don't need an initrd at all.
These might be of help, if you decide to go that route:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml#software-raid
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_on_Software_RAID
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