Problems with my Raid 1

[Neil]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Paige Thompson <erratic at devel.ws> wrote:
>> Dmraid is unknown to me, by fake raids are you referring to software raid
>> and how is that fake? Alo I can help you setup mdadm if you like.
>
> dmraid (fake raid) is used when a motherboard has an inexpensive
> controller that uses the CPU and software to emulate a 'real' hardware
> raid disk controller.   It has a somewhat bad reputation (I have no
> personal experience).    I don't know of a good reason to use it,
> unless you are dual booting with a Windows box and want to use the
> same array for both.
>
> Brian
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Hi

Or if you would like to boot from the raid. This is quite difficult in
soft raid, but relatively easy under fake raid. I have had it running
for a couple of years, no sweat, althought Ubuntu didn't like it back
then.

Neil


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