On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 07:41 +0000, Nigel kendrick wrote: > That was considered at the time but we found that any combination of > mirroring using the motherboard-based controller and the plugged in one > wasn't stable (unbootable or soon locked-up) - the only way we could get > mirroring to work was if both drives were on the 8212-based controller. In reading Cox's notes on the 8212 awhile back, I distinctly remember that he did not have a lot of faith in using the 8212 as a "dumb" ATA controller with 2 channels. It's clearly rigged in hardware to always be used as a hardware stripe/mirror logic. -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- For everything else *COUGH*commercials*COUGH* there's "ManningCard"