On Mon August 22 2005 1:47 am, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > there is no motherboard I'm aware of with an ata or sata hardware > raidcontroller. (I have a couple compaq ml380's with compaq smart array > controllers on the motherboard but those are scsi). > ASUS P4C800 ?? RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, Multiple RAID, built in, but maybe that's not what you're talking about - I sort of came late to this conversation but I was struck by the above statement, since I currently have 4 systems using this motherboard. None of them run Linux, and none of them are using the on-board SATA RAID controller, so my knowledge is limited. > > The budget allows for only $1,400 US. > > serial-ata is not well supported in redhat-9. rhel-3 actually has quite > good serial-ata support for something still built on the 2.4kernel. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA