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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: "Patrick Ale" <patrick.ale@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:24:16 +0100
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use device mapper and dmraid

	http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/

and please read

	http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html

On Saturday 24 February 2007, Patrick Ale wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Quick question,
> 
> Since I am going to open my server today to do some pata tests (for
> the weird detection problems people are giving me fantastic help with,
> no sarcasm, I really mean it) I thought: why not add two 320GB SATA
> disks on the SATA controller that the mainboard has.
> 
> I am wondering: should I use the onboard RAID function? Is this
> supported by Linux? I remember back in "the old days (TM)" there were
> seperate (spelling) drivers for ataraid, how does the current 2.6
> branch cope with the RAID functions of modern motherboards?
> 
> I am aware that it is NOT hardware raid, the raid is done in the
> driver, which is why you need this fancy boot disk before installing
> Windows on your RAID set.
> 
> Or would you suggest me to stick with MD devices?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Patrick Ale
> patrick.ale@gmail.com
> 
> "kun kasvan isoksi, halun olla poro"
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