William Warren wrote: > to further add..google fraid. That's what mobo based raid is. if you > want to use software raid turn off bios raid and use the built in raid > in the linux kernel and then your mobo(asus nforce board) will work jsut > fine. However you want to characterise on-board raid, don't loose sight of the fact that its presence generally has implications for how many disks you can attach before going to add-on cards. Sometimes four connectors (counted at the disk end) are not enough. What you do with all those disks is a separate issue. Most of the peecees I see advertised only have one disk, so obviously on-bord RAID, if it exists, isn't being used. > > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> On 4/23/07, Alex @ Avantel Systems <alex at avantel.ca> wrote: >>> I've been burned by Sata not working on an Asus motherboard (nVidia / >>> nForce) >>> and need to select something that will work for a fairly light duty >>> web/mail/sql server. How do I go about finding out if a specific >>> motherboard >>> will work with sata software raid and Centos 4.4 (or 5.x when it's >>> settled >>> down). >> >> Instead of buying a motherboard, you can add a SATA controller card. >> I have a Promise SATA300 TX4 PCI card ($55) and set up software RAID1 >> on CentOS 4. >> >> Akemi >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> >> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >> Scanned with Copfilter Version 0.84beta1 (P3Scan 2.2.1) >> AntiSpam: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 >> AntiVirus: ClamAV 0.90.1/3151 - Mon Apr 23 12:11:26 2007 >> by Markus Madlener @ http://www.copfilter.org >> > -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list