Hi Andre,
> > Well, it can still gain you some things even in linux:
> >
> > 1) having raid support in the bios increases chances of the system being
> > able to boot even if the firrst disk should be somewhat damaged
> > - if it's still visible to the bios but boot record /kernel can no
> > longer be read you'll need manual intervention to get the system back
> > up again with software raid.
>
> Wrong.......unless the kernel know how to read the RAID and determine
> faults.........will not happen. I managed to invoke hardware by accident
> an then tried to test the stablity of it by unpluging a drive........
> DEAD System..........
Oops, need to clarify: My comment above meant to reference hardware raid in
general, not the specific promise fasttrak controller - in case of this
controller, the bios raid indeed doesn't get you anywhere since there is no
linux driver to take over after the kernel loads.
[thinking about fat syslinux/kernel/initrd partition configured using bios
raid and rest of the disk using linux software raid --- nah, too ugly to
contemplate even if it should be possible]
Bye, Martin
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