On Monday 22 August 2005 11:34 am, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Claude Jones wrote: > > 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 promise 20378 isn't a hardware raid controller. > Great thread! This whole discussion has answered questions I'd had, but hadn't spent time answering, for years. The questions were of the want-to-know variety, as opposed to need-to-know; now that I've read all these posts and looked at the links, I find there really was some need-to-know in there. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA