<div>Second that</div> <div>all the raid testing with m/b (too much effort for little gain and insecurity)</div> <div>These days we double up with componets anyway, so get a dedicated raid card and slot it in :)<BR><BR><B><I>Paul Antoine <pma-la@milleng.com.au></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Chris,<BR><BR>I'd suggest not bothering with RAID on any motherboard.<BR><BR>Set the ports to ordinary IDE or SATA as the case may be, then use the <BR>software RAID capability in Linux. I run a software RAID5 with <BR>hotspare, and have successfully increased RAID capacity while online <BR>using the mdadm tools and JFS as the filesystem.<BR><BR>This also leaves you free of any incompatibilities if you ever need to <BR>replace the motherboard.<BR><BR>Just my 2c.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Paul<BR><BR>Chris Watt wrote:<BR>> Hi Guys,<BR>><BR>> I'm looking at this MoBo with a Celeron D
processor to turn it into a<BR>> NAS box for a system I am working on. Does anyone know if the built<BR>> in RAID is going to be satisfactory for running under linux? I plan<BR>> to use openfile, clark connect or something like that.<BR>><BR>> Cheers Guys<BR>> Chris<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<BR>> http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<BR>> Committee e-mail: committee@plug.linux.org.au<BR>> <BR>_______________________________________________<BR>PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<BR>http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<BR>Committee e-mail: committee@plug.linux.org.au<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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