Joe Steeve wrote:
Nachiketa Sadhu sadhu@iitb.ac.in writes:
I have a Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard which supports hardware RAID. I have installed Fedora 7 on the first SATA hard disk (sda). Now I have added two more identical SATA hard disks and configured them as mirrored RAID in BIOS.
Is it really raid or is it fakeraid? Many of these mother-boards which come with inbuilt raid are not really raid. They are fake raid which require support from a software driver. In such a case disable the raid in the BIOS and use mdadm to do software raid which is anyday better than fakeraid.
I think it is a fakeraid as I got from Google search yesterday. Can you please explain why a software raid is better than fakeraid and/or what is fakeraid or some links for me to read. I could not get much from my search yesterday, but I was mainly searching for hardware raid configuration.
Also., what RAID card is this? A lspci should tell you.
This is what lspci tells me:
00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1) 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
Thanks and regards.
sadh