raid-5 on one hard drive

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

When I booted my rh6.0 box with the default kernel it said:

Apr 29 20:20:40 pclueyb kernel: raid5: using high-speed MMX checksum
routine               

And listed different speeds for MMX P-II, MMX-P and 32bit and 8big (P-II
being the fastest). I though raid5 combined hard drives for redundany and
speed? How can raid5 work on my computer with one hard drive? Should I
recompile my kernel (not rh stock) to have raid 5 support? I have a k6-2
is this matters (is it really using MMX?)

Thanks,

Ben

Ben Luey
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