[plug] OTish: RAID cards

[Trevor Phillips]

Kevin Shackleton wrote:
> 
> If someone does dare to respond, perhaps they could explain why the
> kernel etc even needs to know - I thought you paid all that money for
> RAID so that the card made it all look like one drive.

Well, often the RAID card is a SCSI card itself, so it has to be supported the
same as a plain SCSI card. eg; Our Dell boxes use AMI MegaRAID SCSI cards (Dell
call them PERC2/DC), which have their very own Linux driver.

What'd be even nicer would be tools to configure/test/monitor RAID-specific
properties of these cards from under Linux (which I haven't found yet for the
MegaRAID).

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