[CentOS] Re: hardware raid vs fake raid

Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Sebastian Walter wrote:
> ...
>> As far as I see, the Adaptex AAC-RAID card is a SATA card, while
>> Adaptec's SAS cards are called AIC, ASC/ASR or ASR 
>
> I have 8 *SAS* disks on my AAC-RAID card:

Thanks for pointing this out.

> But maybe lspci is wrong, as it is in fact an IBM serveraid card
> (made by adaptec)?
See a comment about this here:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#ibm

It seems IBM uses Adaptec controllers. Some of IBMs are also Intel
IHC-oriented and therefore fakeraids. They are called "HostRAID".

-- Sebastian