Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

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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