onboard SATA raid on Dell WS670

[J. Epperson]

On Thu, August 17, 2006 16:29, Borenstein, Bernard S wrote:
> We are deploying a number of Dell WS670 workstations which have Suse 9.3
> 64 bit as the OS.  We have two 160GB Sata drives and are using the
> Software raid in Suse to mirror (Raid 1) the drives.  One of my
> co-workers informed me that the spec sheet read that there was onboard
> raid and why weren't we using it.  Is the onboard raid considered
> hardware raid and is it better  than using the software raid in Suse. Do
> we need special drivers for the on-board raid??  Could someone please
> educate me about the onboard raid.
>
I think that's the AIC-7901 controller. If so, what it does is "HostRaid",
which is RAID only in kinda sorta the way a Winmodem is a modem.  It does
some low-level RAID setup but there are no drivers to use it in Linux
distros, AFAIK.  It's a windoze thing.