Re: Promise raid controller writes to disk, anybody know where?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Anders Widman wrote:

>>>>>>I just bought this motherboard with a promise raid controller builtin
>>>>>>whose manual mentions that it writes information to disk (volume and
>>>>>>config info I believe).
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>>It is for my Mom, I want both windows and Linux, and I was hoping the 
>>whole drive would get mirrored by the hardware.  It is okay though, I 
>>will have mom use dd once a week to do it, and this will protect from 
>>viruses better than a synchronous mirror.
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>The  BIOS  is  handling mirroring, which is supported good in Windows,
>and as "experimental" in Linux.
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So it sounds like I should just not use mirroring and life will be fine?

Their product seems to be a bit cheesy, and more than a bit lacking in 
good documentation.  It claims that one of my drives is part of a 1+0 
array.  How can one drive be part of a mirrored array?  Or does that 
mean that it is the mirror of one of the other drives?

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Hans