Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...

2004-11-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Dual-channel SATA 100 (two connectors) integrated with RAID 0 and 1 support If I have 4 drives in the above, could I stripe two to each other and then mirror those together? Or is it strip *or* mirror? also, not sure if this is a no brainer, but would FreeBSD support that resultant array?

Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...

2004-11-05 Thread Scott Gerhardt
There are only two channels so you can only have 2 drives in raid 1 or 0. Don't use 0 unless you don't care about your data. You didn't specify the type of motherboard or SATA RAID chipset, but all of those onboard RAID controllers are not true hardware raid (Host raid) and require special

Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...

2004-11-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Scott Gerhardt wrote: There are only two channels so you can only have 2 drives in raid 1 or 0. Don't use 0 unless you don't care about your data. You didn't specify the type of motherboard or SATA RAID chipset, but all of those onboard RAID controllers are not true hardware

3Ware Controllers (Was: Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...)

2004-11-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Scott Gerhardt wrote: There are only two channels so you can only have 2 drives in raid 1 or 0. Don't use 0 unless you don't care about your data. You didn't specify the type of motherboard or SATA RAID chipset, but all of those

Re: Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...

2004-11-05 Thread steveb99
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Dual-channel SATA 100 (two connectors) integrated with RAID 0 and 1 support If I have 4 drives in the above, could I stripe two to each other and then mirror those together? Or is it strip *or* mirror? also, not sure if this is a no brainer, but would FreeBSD support