Date:  Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:23:26 -0500
From:  "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:10871] Re: nuonce 4.7 BQ on Asus RS100-E4/P12 server
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <aaf301c80cdb$77ea8b10$0601a8c0@systemax>
In-Reply-To:  <470F77A6.1020908 (at mark) dogsbody.org>
X-Mail-Count: 10871

> > Best to disable hardware raid, the system will use software raid
> 
> This should work...
> 
> > Which in many cases is preferable.
> 
> I beg to differ there through.  Software RAID uses the system 
> CPU while 
> (good) Hardware RAID has a dedicated chip to do the processing.
> 
> Just my humble opinion.
> 

It depends on the hardware, many servers use FRAID (fake raid) hardware.
Which, also uses CPU...

I believe if you are going to use hardware RAID, then you need to do a
single drive install. The hardware will then handle the mirroring. But
swatch will not monitor raid status. So you need to have the BIOS notify
of raid failures, not sure how that works...

Gerald


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