[SATLUG] Quasi-hardware RAID on motherboard?

[Sean Carolan]

On 9/16/07, Richard Maynard <richard.maynard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't have experience with that particular Motherboard, or chip set.
> I've used other Asus motherboards with different raid controllers, and
> the conversion from a single drive to a mirror or a stripe has always
> gone well.


Was it real hardware RAID or a crippled software-assisted RAID that needed
Windows drivers to function properly?  Being that this is a Linux mailing
list I'm going to guess that the former is the case, but didn't want to
assume.  This also brings up the questions of stability, monitoring and
recovery.  If a disk fails how will the system notify me?  I'll be chances
are greater than not they have some windows-based tool that checks on this.
But Intel's site shows no downloads for Linux for the Matrix RAID:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2101

I think I'll stick with mdadm for the time being.  Much as I would like to
set up hardware RAID, I don't like the idea of my files going into a black
box leaving me with no tools for monitoring and troubleshooting.