Nick Bryant wrote: > Indeed. I freaked out when I couldn't get my sata promise raid controlling > working in Acer Altos series servers... Till I read an article that said in > 2.4 its actually just as quick (if not quicker, depending on server > hardware) to let the kernel deal with the raid stuff. Exactly. The rule of the thumb is, if you setup RAID in BIOS, and when you boot Linux still sees individual drives, you don't have real RAID controller. That fake RAID stuff has only one purpuse. To allow users of Windows XP Home/Professional to have software RAID. If Microsoft shipped software RAID drivers with Home/Professional (like they do with Server), those fake RAID controllers would never exist. Or to be more correct, the controllers would exist (since they are basically just regular SATA controllers), but you wouldn't see word RAID mentioned anywhere on them, and there would be no RAID settings in their BIOS.