Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Friday 2007-06-22 at 03:21 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: > > > <thread history: The ultimate goal here is to use the 'fake-raid' > > controller built-in to the ASUS motherboard with the 4 SATA drives that > > board can natively control *without* having to use a 5th IDE or external > > drive just to boot the system> > > The ultimate goal should be to have the best raid 5 possible with the > hardware you have ;-p > <snip>
...I did. In fact, in order to get the 5th drive to run my tests, I had to cannibalize an older RedHat system that is 'wounded' because I lost a cpu fan and damaged the cpu chip. I was going to replace the MB in that system at some point but now, I may also be short a drive having had to use it in what I thought was ample hardware; A new ASUS system MB with 4 SATA drives and with a so-called hardware raid controller built-in to the MB. As it turns out, that controller is a 'fake-raid' which borrows cpu cycles but still, with the hardware I had, under Windoze, the configuration would have worked (demonstrated), but I refuse to contaminate my system with that OS and I believe anything Windoze can do, Linux can (or should) be able to do better. So far (and until now), my belief in Linux has been vindicated and there has been nothing I have needed or wanted to do that Linux hasn't been able to do. I would hate to go to my grave with Windoze doing something that Linux cannot for simple want of a proper driver or a few magic incantations in some config file made by someone a lot smarter than I am during installation. I should not have to cannibalize old hardware to make my favorite OS do what my most reviled OS can do. I used to teach OS theory in a local college before my stroke took away much of my mental abilities and left me struggling at times to remember even how to turn the darn thing on,. I am hoping that someone out there has the answer. I read an article (referring to Umbuntu if I remember correctly) which explained how to do it in that distribution successfully, but I prefer SUSE and would rather what I consider a superior distribution overall add this feature rather than that I should have to digress to what I consider a slightly lesser distro (but still *infinitely* preferable to anything Microsoft makes). I know it can be done in other distros, or so I am lead to believe it has been successfully done, so I am looking to make it happen with SUSE. Thanks, Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
