I was *told* that it was hardware raid 5, *however* that said, I will check. They knew I was not and would not ever be using windoze and the raid configuration *is* done from bios but as you said, it is possible it is not a true XOR based hardware raid. I will not be using Dual boot and if I did need WIndoze, I would wear VMware rubber gloves :) When I test Alpha software, I always load it under VMware first to see what 'gotchas' show up but this is a new machine and new hardware with no OS yet installed. Thanks for the tip.
Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 6/20/07, Richard Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At the risk of appearing stupid, which I am willing to do, I recently >> purchased a ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard with intergral RAID5 hardware >> controller. I also purchased 4 WD 400G SATA drives to make a 1.09T >> (usable space) raid5 array under Linux, SUSE 10.2. >> <snip> > > I don't know about your MB, but most onboard raid is fake-raid. > > http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html > > If yours is fake-raid and you don't need Windows dual boot capability, > then using software raid is your preferred choice. ie. Fake raid does > NOT offload any CPU load, it just allows Windows users to have a Raid > setup tool prior to installing windows. > > If you need dual boot to the raid, the you can look at the dmraid > module and see if your controller is supported. > > Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
