Hardware RAID1

Mikael Eriksson miffe-miffe at telia.com
Tue May 24 12:58:59 CDT 2005


lithorus wrote:
> First of all if you are able to see 2 drives and not a single drive you
> DON'T have hardware raid. What you have is a pseudo-raid controller
> often found in very cheap "raid" controllers (usually onboard). If it
> was trully hardware raid. The OS will only see a single drive.
> 
> 
> 
> Since it's not a real hardware raid controller, you are probably better
> off with the software raid supported in Ubuntu. It's fairly easy to
> setup and also gives you alot more control.
> 
> 

It would be nice if Ubuntu supported dmraid, which helps to setup 
pseudo-raid controllers.

Available at: http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/



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