Re: RAID - raidframe vs hardware/controller

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:45:21AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Well, I was talking about relatively modern southbridge chips, as
> found on many motherboards.  BIOS settings exist for three operating
> modes:
> 
>       IDE (compatability?)
>       AHCI
>       RAID
> 
> I just sort of assumed that setting them to RAID would do all the
> work and wouldn't require any additional driver support in NetBSD.
> Maybe I'm being naive?

The hardware support in this case is minimal and NetBSD's driver
support not very good. I would definitely recommend to use
RAIDframe in this case.

By hardware I meant something like this:

        http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcix.htm

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/