Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: Linux SATA RAID FAQ | Date | Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:01:44 +0100 |
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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.
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