From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-news2004-05@lina.inka.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux SATA RAID FAQ
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:01:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408121501.44870.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BvFmM-0007W5-00@calista.eckenfels.6bone.ka-ip.net>
On Thursday 12 August 2004 14:38, you wrote:
> In article <20040812113413.GA19252@alpha.home.local> you wrote:
> > I like it. It's fairly simple. I'm always amazed how many people do
> > really believe that these cards provide hardware RAID !!! The problem is
> > when you ask a reseller to add a real hardware RAID card in a system you
> > purchase and you end up with a cheap silicon image... It happened to us
> > once and it's not funny at all.
>
> Speaing of that, does that mean that other OSes (i.e. Windows) are using
> BIOS provided code to do raid, or do they also have raid software drivers
> and the bios is only used on bootup for signature detection and formatting?
>
> Greetings
> Bernd
Windows also has "software drivers". Since vendors provide drivers
independently of Microsoft, they can put precisely what they like in them.
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk
university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk
student: CS/AI Undergraduate
contact: 1F2 55 South Clerk Street,
Edinburgh. EH8 9PP.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-12 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-12 6:33 Jeff Garzik
2004-08-12 7:18 ` Michael Knigge
2004-08-12 11:17 ` Paul Ionescu
2004-08-12 11:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-08-12 13:38 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-08-12 12:56 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-12 17:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-12 17:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-14 21:49 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-14 22:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-15 20:54 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-15 20:51 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-15 22:02 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-08-15 21:42 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-08-16 22:06 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-16 21:58 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-16 22:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-12 14:01 ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2004-08-14 0:31 ` J. Ryan Earl
2004-08-14 3:17 ` Mark Lord
2004-08-14 6:37 ` age huisman
2004-08-14 11:03 ` Mark Lord
2004-08-14 15:21 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-14 22:28 ` J. Ryan Earl
2004-08-12 18:09 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-08-12 13:46 Dieter Stueken
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