On Sunday 19 June 2005 00:58, Dag Wieers wrote: > Hi, > > On my x86_64 system I have a SiL311x controller that can do RAID. If I > configure my 2 identical disks in a RAID1 setup, I would expect to see > only 1 block device on Linux. Still I see 2 block devices. > > Is this intentional, and if so, isn't that dangerous ? (i.e. writing to > both disks at the same time) > > Anyone with an insight, please explain :) > > -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- > [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] > _______________________________________________ Not REAL RAID - requires a Windoze driver to make it work. Software RAID is your friend unless you want to spring for a 3ware card (not cheap). HTH Brian