On Sat May 26 2007, you wrote: > Claude Jones <claude_jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We seem to be going around in circles. This whole thread started > > with an assertion that nVidia RAID was just software RAID > > dependent on Windows drivers and a BIOS patch. So, which is it, > > is nVidia software or hardware based? Whether or no its cheap is > > not the issue - it's whether its hardware or software, I think. > > Most cheap raid controllers such as come with motherboards are software > raid in the sense that they reqiure significant CPU support. I don't > know the status of your particular chipset. I'm in 'learn' mode. Thanks for the input. I want to understand this all better so I'm doing a lot of research on this now. The nVidia nForce RAID system threw many curve balls at me today; it was losing RAID configurations, lost all the data and formatting on one mirror while I was working on another, and it all began with me pulling a drive on the OS mirror, yesterday, to test the system - the result was a blue screen, not exactly what a drive failure is supposed to do. Tech support at SuperMicro had me install some newer firmware to the Enterprise SATA server drives I'm using, but the tech notes didn't say anything about the specific issue I had, so I'm not sure I've really fixed things. I've got the server back up now, and no data was lost, but it took many hours and I still don't thoroughly understand how this is all supposed to work. I'm beginning to wonder if my use of the Qtparted Linux distro on my NTFS partition to shrink it, might have introduced some anomalies that are at the root of these problems... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
