[lug] RAID Controller Recommendations

[George Sexton]

On 9/19/2014 11:30 AM, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On 09/19/2014 10:15 AM, Matt James wrote:
>> FWIW - I've had extremely bad luck with CentOS /. RHEL and the
>> on-board Intel /fake/ RAID.  In one particular case, software said
>> RAID was A-OK, but when I removed a drive from a mirror set (testing
>> on the bench stuff) the machine failed to boot.  Upon further
>> investigation - the /mirrored/ drive was completely blank.  YMMV
> Intel's RAID BIOS only supports booting and DOS. Once in Windows it
> requires an installed driver. In Linux, you need to use MD or LVM. I
> recall there's a program to read the RAID BIOS settings and replicate
> them into MD on boot.
>
> That's why the other drive was blank. Once Linux takes over Intel RAID
> is just a bunch of drives.

I tried using the "Intel RAID" on a win7 machine, and Windows installed 
a driver update that blew out the "RAID".

-- 
George Sexton
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