Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...
Marc G. Fournier
scrappy at hub.org
Fri Nov 5 12:44:09 PST 2004
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 raid (Host raid) and
> require special software drivers in the OS. You are much better off
> purchasing a separate hardware raid controller such as the 3Ware 8006-2LP 2
> port, 3Ware 9500S-4LP 4 port, Adaptec 2410SA 4-port controllers. They do
> true hardware raid and work with FreeBSD.
>
> Hope that answers your question.
Unfortunately ... yup :) I was hoping to avoid the extra cost, but glad
to have it confirmed ... thanks ...
BTW, the motherboard/chassis is the Intel SR1400/SE7520JR2 ... which,
re-looking at the specs negates the original question anyway :) it only
holds 3 drives ...
Thanks though ...
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