Thanks,

Found that and did that already.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:13 PM, bogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> http://linuxrevolution.blogspot.com/2008/09/ubuntu-and-asus-p5q-e-motherboard.html
>
> On October 31, 2008 14:07, Chris q wrote:
> > I guess it would be drive xpert. Basically, there are 8 sata ports on the
> > motherboard and you can turn two of them into a normal sata port, or have
> > them basically raid 1'd
> > I had it set as a normal port to software raid 6 drives and have one
> extra
> > drive seperate for / and /home. I don't really need help with software
> > raid, I'm pretty familiar. I just am trying to figure out why the
> assembly
> > keeps failing, and the only thing I can think of is asus doing something
> > stupid like piggy backing their drive xpert on  one of the six sata ports
> > on the board already on the main controller.
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > On 10/31/08, Chris q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Anyone have any experience with the asus p5q? I'm trying to build a
> > >
> > > software
> > >
> > > > raid array (6 drives) on it and the thing can't seem to stop failing.
> > >
> > > After
> > >
> > > > having it fail twice, it looks like it was the drive connected to the
> > >
> > > xpress
> > >
> > > > (insert marketing crap here) sata port bringing down a second drive
> as
> > >
> > > well.
> > >
> > > > Is there any way I can check to see if Asus was stupid enough to
> piggy
> > >
> > > back
> > >
> > > > their xpress ports on another sata channel?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > >
> > > A few questions:
> > > - What is an xpress port?  I see "express gate" in their product
> > > literature, and "drive xpert"
> > > - What kind of RAID array?  0? 1? 10? 5? 6? JBOD?  This is very
> > > important...
> > > - What are you using to do the software RAID?
> > >
> > > -Mark C.
> > >
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