Hardware RAID1

Jim Cheetham jim at egressive.com
Tue May 24 08:54:34 UTC 2005


On May 24, 2005, at 8:39 PM, 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.

Or, you have a true hardware RAID card, but haven't configured an array 
on it - in this case, many cards present the drives direct to the OS.

-jim





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