On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:13:21PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > 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... >
Let me state: I don't plan on doing this myself, software raid, and normal controllers are fine for me. But what if you pay ~$50 more, and the only difference is a different bios and a resistor? Mike
