Re: Linux SATA RAID FAQ

Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-16T22:11:03Z

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:06:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> hch questioned why we need the driver at all: just put the card in JBOD
> mode and use s/w raid drivers. But the thing does have an on-board CPU and
> the idea is that by offloading to that, the data transits the bus just a
> single time. The developers are off doing some comparative benchmarking at
> present.

Alan's driver can use the chip in raid mode.