RE: [newbie] (Newbie) Another M/Board Q

[care free]

Check to see if the raid controller is supported in Mandrake 10.1.  I bought 
an off board promise ide raid and did not do a deep research on it early 
this year.  I just checked promise website and it said that the card is 
supported.  After buying the card, I tried to install mandrake 9.2.   It did 
not recognize the card.  So I did a deeper research and found  out that 
promise only has proprietary drivers for Redhat, SUSE, and Turbo.  Mandrake 
is only supported at version 9.  So I was out of luck.  I searched on Google 
and others said that the card is only recognized as ide controller under 
linux not raid since it is not real raid.
I don't know if it works when you install mandrake on a separate hard drive 
on the same raid controller.

It 's just my thoughts.
J.T.

	Just purchased a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 mother board. It has an on board 
ide
raid controller, ITE 8211 i think. I have 2 X 250GB maxters set up with 
raid
0 . Will Mandrake 10.1 (Linux Format mag version) detect and set it up OK. 
I
already have win 2000 pro on it.
	Also will it make much difference performance wise, booting and running
mandrake on a raid setup against running it on a standard ide master / 
slave
set up. I ask as i still have ide channel 0 empty and I am thinking of
chucking in another drive to run Mandrake on instead of the partition I 
have
set aside on the raid drives.

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