Gigabyte GA-VM900M caveats

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wednesday 23 May 2007 06:32, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> If the VIA V-RAID BIOS is configured with a 'bootable array', raid
> does not show up as I'd expect; I have to disable booting from the
> array in order to get ar0 to show up. The array currently shows up as
> 'degraded'.

On a somewhat related note..
In my experience V-RAID is utter crap - if one of your disks fails in a 
RAID1 array and you reboot it will give you 2 options - erase the first 
part of your disk and boot, or sit and do nothing.

When I asked my motherboard vendor about this they suggested I switch to 
SATA mode (to boot off one disk) or to put another disk in and 
rebuild... Not exactly good for unattended use.

This was on an Epox 8HDAI Pro, I don't know if it's any better now or 
not.

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