On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:17:10 +0100 (+0100), Hugo Mills wrote:
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> If that's the case, then you're *far* better off ditching the
> "Onboard RAID" and using Linux's software RAID implementation, which
> is rather better tested.
Yes, I can second that from personal experience. Namely when it
breaks badly and you end up doing really _evil_ things to get it
working again (not least since at the time Linux couldn't rebuild a
broken "BIOS raid" array). Background reading for the interested:
http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/04/01/fakeraid-avoid/
Adrian
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