[wellylug] Computer System Vendor Wgtn

[Jethro Carr]

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 15:53 +1200, andrej at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Quoting nic <nic at tymar.com>:
> 
> > pain in all sorts of places where sometimes even the latest version of a
> > distro doesn't support the SATA controller. I've got to the stage where 
> > I will probably avoid SATA for because of the problems with chipsets and 
> > drivers.
> But that kind of issue can commonly be avoided if you decide 
> not to buy the latest and greatest in "bleating edge" (yes, I
> typed it like that on purpose) hardware .... that said, what
> people advertise as SATA RAID commonly isn't anything actually
> implemented in hardware to begin with.

I've never had a problem with SATA before - what sort of dodgy hardware
were you using? :-)

HOWEVER: Trying to use the motherboards "hardware" RAID often won't
work, because vendors cheat and actually provide you with "host raid",
which replaces some of the hardware with software in the driver (think
winmodems).

But software raid is great, so it makes more sense just to use that.


-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog

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