I have no experience with Promise cards, but I have used Compaq and HP cards with RH using RAID 5. I'm not sure why you're seeing both HD's but perhaps someone can address that. As to hardware vs. software, it's always faster to use hardware because the management of the RAID set is offloaded to the card. This frees up Linux' resources for other things like whatever you built it for. :)
<<JAV>> ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Ryan McDougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 Apr 2003 21:56:15 -0700 Subject: Built-in Harware RAID on RH 8/9 > Hello, > > I recently bough a motherboard ( Gigabyte 7VAXP Ultra ) with a Promise > Raid 0,1 card on board. I tried to set up the BIOS to use my two 15gb > disks as one Raid 0 device, but the redhat installer only saw it as two > drives. The manual says that you have to install windows drivers, but > makes no mention about linux. Software drivers make a certain amount > of sense, but one would think that linux would have drivers for such > a common piece of hardware. > > Has anyone here had ANY experience setting up on-board raid, or with > the Promise Raid itself?? > > Also right now I am using linux software raid 0. Is there a real speed > improvement going from no raid, to software raid, to hardware raid? > Id appreciate any help. > > Cheers, > Ryan > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ------- End of Original Message ------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
