From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268573AbUHLOCx (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:02:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268572AbUHLOCx (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:02:53 -0400 Received: from mail.metronet.co.uk ([213.162.97.75]:28880 "EHLO mail.metronet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268573AbUHLOCv (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:02:51 -0400 From: Alistair John Strachan Reply-To: s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk Organization: University of Edinburgh To: Bernd Eckenfels Subject: Re: Linux SATA RAID FAQ Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:01:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.82 References: In-Reply-To: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408121501.44870.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.