[CentOS] Intel ICH10R on CentOS 5.4
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.comThu Jun 10 00:27:30 UTC 2010
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William Warren wrote: > jsut put the bios into sata or ata mode and not raid..then the raid > functionality is zero..: even when its enabled, the raid functionaliy of the ICH??R chips is zero. :) "enabling RAID" in the BIOS simply sets a bit in the chip thats write-once (once its set, it can't be reset short of a full chip reset), this does two things. A) it changes the PCI DEVICE_ID of the chip so it requires different drivers, B) it tells the BIOS and drivers that they should implement Intel Matrix aka fake raid rather than standard SATA JBOD. thats *ALL* it does in hardware. nada else.
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