On Friday 21 September 2007 19:06:16 John R Pierce wrote: > John Bowden wrote: > > The mother board has 2 X IDE channels, 2 X IDE channels with raid and 2 X > > SATA raid channels, that's up to 10 hard drive devices. ... > > Sometimes those IDE channels w/ raid only support 1 drive per channel. > anyways, putting two devices on one IDE channel w/ raid isn't a very > good idea, if either device fails in certain modes, it can take out the > IDE channel. > > Whatever.... I'd configure it all as JBOD, and implement raid-1 > (mirroring) or raid1+0 (stripe/mirror) in Linux. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I have had two 250 Gb drives on the same channel with raid 0 in windoz when I first brought the board. At the time the chip was not recognised in Linux. The SATA drives will have software raid and will get backed up to DVD R. i don't mind loosing a few tv recordings if the ITE raid set up has a problem. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240