RE: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] UltraATA133PCI RAID Controller - £19.99

["Gerard McGovern" <stuff@xxxxxxx>]

> Anything this cheap is unlikely to be genuine hardware RAID. 
> The Promise 
> and Adaptec ATA-RAID cards, for example, are not real hardware RAID -
> most of the work is actually done by the driver which comes 
> with them. 
> The fact that the manual says the card requires Windows 
> indicates that 
> this is also the case with this card.

Well that is not the case in the Adaptec ATA-RAID case. They use the
HighPoint Technologies chipset and you can get drivers to work under
Linux, FreeBSD, SuSE and I think that even Solaris is supported.
Software only RAID it is not.

G

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