hi ya yeah... if the "buffering works" that the flash or its temporary space can retain the fact that it did complete flushing data to disk and the mirror...
guess that should work... but ... why do all that when for $10 or $50 more you can get a real hw raid controller and if it dont work ( you lost your data ) in the middle of a power failure...you can return the "not so good" raid controller... simulate the failure mode you are using raid to protect against and see if it worked... have fun raiding.. alvin http://www.Linux-1U.net ... 500Gb raid5 ... http://www.linux-consulting.com/Raid/Differences.gif ( nice (stolen) pictures of raid differences ) -- earlier there was a post of 4 drives in raid5 .... ( always thought raid5 should be odd number of drives ( so that parity generation and recovery works properly ( 3 drives in raid5 - overhead is 1/3 of a disk for parity ( 5 drives in raid5 - overhead is 1/5 of a disk for parity ( 7 drives in raid5 - overhead is 1/7 of a disk for parity On Wed, 9 May 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:39:32PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > hi ya jason > > > > my silly thinking says... > > > > one cannot convert non-raid ide controllers into a hw raid controller > > by adding or cutting wires/traces/resistors > > > > -- write large file, largefoo.txt to the 'disK' > As I recall, you just solder a resistor, and flash the bios, the new bios > makes it raid. >
