Re: Re: "rock solid" motherboard

2005-03-12 Thread Superuserman
Paul- Thanks for the response. I don't have experience with the Sil controller chip. The VIA chips have absolutely no hardware raid functionality. The VIA chips can be configured to combine individual disks into an array with striping and/or mirroring or to not combine the disks at all. They have n

Re: Re: Re: "rock solid" motherboard

2005-03-12 Thread Superuserman
I should revise my explanation here: I can have 4 disks in DOS (c:, d:, e:, and f:) and then turn on the RAID1 mode and there is just one disk c: only. If that is RAID0 then the c: must be 4-formatted first. That doesn't use any drivers or software except plain DOS. The 4 disks would actually be RA

Re: Re: "rock solid" motherboard

2005-03-12 Thread Superuserman
Michal wrote about this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/03/msg00393.html The chip doesn't even have a RAID mode. With these chips, the RAID function has to be provided by software. In Windows the RAID function is provided by the BIOS + the Windows driver. I have already done the

Re: Re: "rock solid" motherboard

2005-03-11 Thread Superuserman
Paul wrote: The Linux kernel does not now support any of the motherboard chips capable of native RAID mode in the BIOS. Not true. Read http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html. Perhaps you missed the subject matter. The question is why the ABIT AV8 RAID mode in the BIOS does not work with Lin

Re: Re: "rock solid" motherboard

2005-03-11 Thread Superuserman
Joshua Moore wrote: I hate to bring this up again, but this is the only discussion I've been able to find that speaks around my specific needs. I have the Abit AV8 and Athlon64 3000 CPU. When I try to install Debian with RAID-0 (two Western Digital SATA drives), it gets to the partitioning part

Re: Re: "rock solid" motherboard

2005-03-10 Thread Superuserman
Joshua Moore wrote: I hate to bring this up again, but this is the only discussion I've been able to find that speaks around my specific needs. I have the Abit AV8 and Athlon64 3000 CPU. When I try to install Debian with RAID-0 (two Western Digital SATA drives), it gets to the partitioning part and

Re: Re: "rock solid" motherboard

2005-03-10 Thread Superuserman
Joshua Moore wrote: I hate to bring this up again, but this is the only discussion I've been able to find that speaks around my specific needs. I have the Abit AV8 and Athlon64 3000 CPU. When I try to install Debian with RAID-0 (two Western Digital SATA drives), it gets to the partitioning part and