SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

Sun Apr 2 08:18:38 UTC 2006

"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> writes:

> On Sunday 02 April 2006 05:20, Lars Cleary wrote:
>> Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1?
>>
>> IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary,
>> as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller
>> is just as fast as any RAID controller.
>
> You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1.
> (well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap)

It's a matter of the BIOS:
will it complain, or will it proceed to the next SATA disk?

-- 
Matthias Andree