On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 21:43, Smitty wrote:
> > Supposedly, some of the newer Promise RAID controllers are hardware -
> > but I'm unaware of any Linux drivers for them yet.
> 
> Thank you very much but I have such a motherboard and They Do have linux 
> drivers. http://www.promise.com  search and see for yourself.  
Does it do REAL hardware RAID or is it driver-assisted?
According to everything I've seen on the kernel list, the Promise
drivers are a) crap, and b) doing software-RAID.
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