On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:25:01 -0400
Oldtech <me@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ed wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:20:11 +0000 (UTC)
> > waterskidoo <water.skidoo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2007-07-13, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The only driver that typically needs to be installed (manually) in
> >>> Linux is for the GPU. Even *that* has been simplified. In Ubuntu
> >>> it now falls under "restriced drivers", so activation is about two
> >>> clicks away (okay, maybe a few more). Installing Windows? Who ever
> >>> installs Windows? It typically just gets forcefed with a PC and if
> >>> it breaks, some "Windows expert" from next door is called in to
> >>> spend half a day trawling the Web for drivers while trying to keep
> >>> Trojans away.
> >> My Asus board came with the RAID driver on CD which isn't too smart
> >> seeing as Windows XP will only allow you to insert a diskette
> >> during the install if additional drivers are needed. At least
> >> AFAIK. I had to go to Asus website to figure out how to make a
> >> diskette for the RAID drivers.
> >> PITA.
> >> PClinuxos picked up the controller fine.
> >> Ubuntu did not, at least the last version of it didn't.
> >
> > If that was *real* RAID then it'd be BIOS, in which case the disks
> > would appear as /dev/sd*, these pseudo raids are a PITA, agreed, we
> > have a cluster of these in the DC, windows installation on several
> > of them took weeks to sort out as every time we did a 'dd' of the
> > drives to copy to the backup it would loose knowledge of the RAID
> > configuration.
> >
> > At least with the linux installs it would flat out refuse to see it
> > as a RAID, which makes more sense, as it wasn't RAID!
> >
> > I wish the manufacturers would stop calling it RAID, it's not
> > hardware, it's some mangled software. Just like a 'modem' which is
> > in fact a sound card these days.
> >
>
> At the Installfest, we found that many of the boards have RAID SATA
> controller chips on board and they come up in Linux as hardware RAID.
>
> Weird thing, they also show up as software Raid until we correct the
> files (Raid.conf?).
It is driver RAID. If it's 'detected' as hardware raid (it should not be
'detected' it will just exist as a block device) then it's wrong.
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