From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Promise raid controller writes to disk, anybody know where? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 05:40:51 +0400 Message-ID: <3E9E0623.7090708@namesys.com> References: <3E9D88FB.6090109@namesys.com> <1389382.20030416185111@tnonline.net> <3E9D8ABC.8050601@namesys.com> <1410590683.20030416185911@tnonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <1410590683.20030416185911@tnonline.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Anders Widman Cc: Reiserfs-List@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). >>>>>> >>>>>> > > > > > >>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. >> >> > >The BIOS is handling mirroring, which is supported good in Windows, >and as "experimental" in Linux. > >//Anders > >-------- >PGP public key: https://tnonline.net/secure/pgp_key.txt > > > > > 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? -- Hans