Intel motherboard and SATA/RAID ...

[steveb99]

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> "Dual-channel SATA 100 (two connectors) integrated with RAID 0 and 1 
> support"
>
> If I have 4 drives in the above, could I stripe two to each other and 
> then mirror those together?  Or is it strip *or* mirror?
>
> also, not sure if this is a no brainer, but would FreeBSD support that 
> resultant array?

The two variations your are talking about are referred to as RAID 0 + 1, 
or RAID 10 depending on the order you stripe and mirror.  I assume this 
is hardware RAID so FreeBSD shouldn't even know its there.  You will 
create a logical drive from the RAID set you create and that is what 
FBSD will see.  That is one of the reasons I like hardware RAID vs 
software RAID is the OS doesn't even know about it, it is just a drive 
to the OS. 

Steve Barnette