From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver for BIOS-based software RAIDs
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:18:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031014071850.GD1951@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310132238.40012.thomas@horsten.com>
On 2003-10-13T22:38:40,
Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com> said:
> Having said that, BIOS RAID does solve a few problems inherent to software
> RAID's, particularly the boot process
The boot process is a real problem. It can be partly solved in the
bootloader - iff the BIOS is smart enough to try all disks until it can
read one copy -, but yes, BIOS RAID does have some advantage here. This
is pre-kernel stage though and so beyond this driver anyway.
After the kernel is up and running, we can handle that just fine.
> and consistency of RAID's between operating systems.
That's fortunately a problem I don't have to care about ;-)
> > Windows doesn't use the BIOS to access the device at all; the
> > corresponding hardware drivers emulate that.
> I know, but the BIOS supports its boot up to 32-bit mode. Which means you
> could see the drive from DOS, etc.
Well, for the boot loader stage it does have some advantage as I said.
But beyond that it doesn't matter and is bypassed.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-14 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-13 18:21 Driver for BIOS-based software RAIDs Thomas Horsten
2003-10-13 18:31 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-10-13 19:19 ` Thomas Horsten
2003-10-13 19:03 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-10-13 19:25 ` Thomas Horsten
2003-10-13 21:17 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-10-13 21:38 ` Thomas Horsten
2003-10-14 7:18 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
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