Re: [SLUG] Partitioning (Again?!)

From: Smitty (a.smitty@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 13:55:38 EDT


On Thursday 19 September 2002 11:27, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 21:43, Smitty wrote:
> > > Supposedly, some of the newer Promise RAID controllers are hardware -
> > > but I'm unaware of any Linux drivers for them yet.
> >
> > Thank you very much but I have such a motherboard and They Do have linux
> > drivers. http://www.promise.com search and see for yourself.
>
> Does it do REAL hardware RAID or is it driver-assisted?

Driver assisted, but you should not come to me for that. Just follow the url
and look into it for yourself.
>
> According to everything I've seen on the kernel list, the Promise
> drivers are a) crap, and b) doing software-RAID.

Please be specific about what you mean by "crap". Who exactly made such
statements and were they based on firsthand experience?



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