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Great information to know. That sounds like a very nasty situation.<BR>
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On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 12:40 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On 01/06/11 11:11 AM, Gene Brandt wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Thanks for that bit of advice. I've never been able to recover from </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> hardware raid on any Intel system. The software raid is simple to </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> configure and it works!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">its not actually hardware raid.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">when you set the 'raid mode' in the BIOS, at power up it sets a bit in </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the ICH chip which changes its PCI DeviceID from 'regular SATA </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">controller' to 'Intel Matrix FakeRaid'. thats *ALL* it does, change </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the device ID. no other hardware changes. the controller is still a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">plain old multiport SATA controller.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the device ID is used to pick which driver by the OS plug-n-play </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">stuff. the regular setting choses the regular SATA driver while the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">'fakeraid' setting loads the fakeraid driver (dmraid in Linux). the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">fakeraid driver implements all the raid in the device driver. This is </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">only really useful for MS Windows non-Server distributions which don't </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">support native mirroring or whatever in the OS.</FONT>
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