On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 13:03, Jonathan wrote:
Lance Davis wrote:
On 12 Jul 2003, Matt Fairtlough wrote:
I thought it was hardware based because the disk configuration is done
independently of the operating system? When I added a second drive to my
system, it asked me if I wanted to rebuild the RAID1 array from within
the RAID BIOS.
that seems right; surely you have defined "hardware RAID" against
"software RAID". Also although it isn't very expensive it is rather
more than other cards discussed on sheflug which seem to be software
RAID solutions.
P.S. The thing I did like about the Promise onboard is that you can mod
the RAID BIOS and instead of having striping only, you get access to the
full RAID modes, took me about 20 minutes including locating suitable
insutructions.
mine provides 0/1 RAID and I'm using 1 only (don't intend to change
that); but how do you cope with the driver issue? Maybe you don't have
the same chipset as me, but still, there aren't any open Promise
drivers, are there?
There isn't a driver issue. I install FreeBSD, it picks up the
controller from the installation media, that's it.