Adaptec WinRAID (was RE: [wplug] GRUB won't update MBR)

[John Harrold]

Sometime in August Alexandros Papadopoulos assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| >
| > 	Disappointed certainly - but "ticked" - well, to play devils'
| > advocate investigation before purchase would have saved you this grief.
| > Like you, I personally was not aware of the increasing prevalence of
| > "WinPuter" style chipsets (not really clear from the above statement as to
| > whether or not this thing _is_ software driven) until I started looking at
| > laptops and asking what worked under Linux and what did not.  There are
| > entire laptops that are XP only (thank you SiS).
| 
| Reading the specs didn't help me much. Sure, it did mention only M$ stuff 
| under "supported operating systems", but that's a standard disclaimer for any 
| device out there (printers, modems, scanners etc). Besides, it had some silly 
| software with it, so that M$ users could see a nice icon on their tray, that 
| would reassure them that the array was alive and well. So I assumed that the 
| "Windows only" clause applied to that valuable application.
| 
| BUT, this controller does *nothing*. Since it depends on OS-level software to 
| work, what's the benefit against software RAID? Where do the advantages of 
| hardware RAID controllers go?

well if you had an os that didn't support software raids, like windows me,
then it might be useful. i don't really know if me has native support for
software raids. the only version of windows that i'm familiar with that had
software raids was windows nt. so if you had windows 98 and this could give
you a software raid, then it might be useful. that is assuming the card
supports these os's.




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