On Apr 20, 2008, at 00:42 , Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Following your logic, in order to sell a controller as "hardware
> RAID" you'd have to fully implement RAID functionality in hard-wired
> gates, with no "soft logic" inside? That threshold is a bit high - I
> think it would be fair to set the bar at "RAID implemented to not
> rely on host RAM and/or CPU"...
Following my logic would have led you to a joke.
Hardware RAID is a coprocessor. Same basic definition applies. The
work is not being done by the host.
Otherwise, how many sub-atomic state changes are involved in
incrementing a register?
:-)
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