John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
The E8500 is a desktop Core2Duo CPU, I thought? 'what sort of
Yes, my mistake. It's a Core 2 Duo.
I don't know where I saw the Xeon sticker. I saw the E8500 on /proc/cpuinfo but didn't RTFS properly. :/ This was further confused when I googled E8500 and one of the hits mentioned Xeon...
The raid is indeed an Intel Matrix RAID. The BIOS is configured so that the sata controller is in RAID mode, and the "OPROM" is set to Matrix Raid.