Re: Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated RAID controller

2007-09-16 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Karl Denninger wrote: Is there something that I can do (e.g. what registers/info would help if I wrote them down?) since it would have to literally be transcribed manually. More of the same. Most likely your RAID BIOS wants to enter protected mode. BTX normlly runs in vm86 mode. Please

Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated RAID controller

2007-09-15 Thread Karl Denninger
Hi folks; I have a new Intel ICH7 board here that has Quad-core support. It works well EXCEPT It has an on-board RAID controller with some internal buffer memory. I'm not all that interested in using it as a RAID adapter. I am, however, interested in using it as a disk adapter, as a way

Re: Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated RAID controller

2007-09-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:36 PM 9/15/2007, Karl Denninger wrote: I'm not all that interested in using it as a RAID adapter. I am, however, interested in using it as a disk adapter, as a way to both spread load AND benefit from its cache memory. Can you not turn off the RAID feature in the BIOS so that the SATA

Re: Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated RAID controller

2007-09-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Karl Denninger wrote: It has an on-board RAID controller with some internal buffer memory. I'm not all that interested in using it as a RAID adapter. I am, however, interested in using it as a disk adapter, as a way to both spread load AND benefit from its cache memory.

Re: Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated RAID controller

2007-09-15 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 08:19:28PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 06:36 PM 9/15/2007, Karl Denninger wrote: I'm not all that interested in using it as a RAID adapter. I am, however, interested in using it as a disk adapter, as a way to both spread load AND benefit from its cache memory.