[lug] SW Raid question

[dio2002 at indra.com]

> 2.5) Get another cheap SATA non-RAID card and replace the on-board with
> this.

One other question related to this.

Lets say i go ahead and enable the compatability mode right now so i can
install my sw raid / lvm setup and get up and running.  Lesser performance
isn't going to kill me right now.

If i buy a SATA card as you describe for install at some point in the near
future, i should be able to install the card, plug in my old drives and
the system should boot / run with them without a reinstall right?  the way
i understand it is that sw raid should be hw independent (after all it's
implemented in sw)?

Of course this assumes that i don't need to compile a driver for the card.

But even if i did, I imagine i could mkinitrd with the new driver module,
install my new initrd in /boot and grub install BEFORE installing the new
sata card so kernel finds what it needs on reboot?