To "hardware" RAID 5 or software RAID 5

[Hadders]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:09:46PM -0800, Ubence Quevedo wrote:
>   
>> raid solutions [I know it isn't truly hardware raid], or should I use  
>> Fedora's built in software raid for what I want to accomplish.  I  
>>     
>
> Linux's built-in software raid is more sophisticated, better tested, and
> probably better performing than any of these bios-assisted software raids.
> Use it instead.
>
>   
I get the feeling that these cheap hardware raid solutions we get for 
"free" on the mainboard are sudo-raid-wannabes and that the "driver" you 
have to load to use them with Windows is just software RAID...

Can anyone confirm that is the behavior...?