From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aic79xx and RAID ?
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 06:39:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <438EE0ED.7000605@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051201104805.GA3893@danisch.de>
Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> A software raid controller? Never heard of such a beast before.
>
>
> I always thought that there are exactly two ways to do raid,
> one way is to have it all hidden in the controller, which makes the
> RAID mirror appear as just a single disk to the kernel,
> and the other way is to use the kernel software raid (configured with
> mdadm).
>
> I've never heard of a software raid controller, where the kernel must
> do the work itself. After all, what's the controller's job and
> why is it called a RAID controller then?
Marketing.
Read http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-01 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-01 10:20 aic79xx and RAID ? Hadmut Danisch
2005-12-01 10:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-01 10:48 ` Hadmut Danisch
2005-12-01 10:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-01 11:39 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-12-02 0:32 ` Matthias Andree
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