SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sunday 02 April 2006 17:48, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1.
> > (well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap)
>
> It's a matter of the BIOS:
> will it complain, or will it proceed to the next SATA disk?

Yes indeed.
It also depends on the failure mode of the disk.

Personally I think the price is worth paying :)
(Although for a home server you can get your hands on easily then software 
RAID should not be a problem)

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