[Techtalk] Re: [Grrltalk] linux /ataraid (highpoint)

[Dave North]

Paul:
> Yes, and no.. I tried the kernel software raid under linux and compared
> to the "software" raid provided by the highpoint cards there is a big
> difference.. 15 mins to install RH 7.3 with the highpoint as opposed to
> about half an hour with software raid.

What a strange result! Were you installing from CD? I didn't know there
were CD drives that could feed data through the bus faster than even a
single ho-hum disk could handle. What kind of CD drive? I want one!
	I liked to run my macro-timings by copying huge files from one
raid partition to another, but that's not how people usually set up for
some reason.
	Booting from a RAID partition is unnecessary, of course. It's a
good idea to have a /boot partition, which is tiny, and hardly need be
RAID.

d