[ILUG] Booting a broken raid array

[John Allen]

Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2009, at 07:03, paul at clubi.ie wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Niall O Broin wrote:
>>
>>> ALL RAID is software - it's just a question of where the software 
>>> runs (and I include XOR engines here - still software, really, just 
>>> very specialised software, runing on very specialised hardware)
>>
>> Hmm, not that specialised. The Mylex ones were small embedded 
>> computers (i960 and then XScale) - using normal SIMMs/DIMMs even. 
>> Never seen any PERC cards, but no doubt similar thing
>
> Read what I said Paul. The processors on 'hardware' RAID cards are 
> many and various - I've even seen x86 variants used IIRC. However, I 
> referred to the dedicated XOR hardware included on some cards to 
> offload these calculations from the card's CPU - the only thing which 
> coudl reasonably be called hardware RAID, as it wasn't software 
> executing on a general purpose CPU - though I'd still argue that as 
> it's executing an algorithm, it's software.
>
Maybe we should call it "Linux Kernel RAID", or "Linux Native RAID" instead.
>
> Niall