On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 16:56, Barry L. Kline wrote: > It's doubtful that your on-board RAID controller is going to work with > Linux. Most of the on-board controllers are really nothing more than > two SATA channels with the driver (for Windows) providing the RAID > functionality. Thus, you're really not gaining hardware RAID, in spite > of what you are led to believe by the BIOS options. That's why Linux is > reporting it as two drives. > > You have two choices: 1) Buy a hardware RAID controller (my choice > being the 3ware brand), or 2) use software RAID. Since that's what > you'd be getting anyways if you were using this board with Windows and > the appropriate driver, you're not losing anything. > > FWIW I've had no problems whatsoever when using software RAID. I use it > on many of my servers. Note that unless it has changed recently, SATA drives don't pass errors up to the software raid layer correctly. If a drive dies it doesn't get kicked out as it should. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com