OpenSUSE, Anyone?

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Alma J Wetzker wrote:

> Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>
> [snip hardware history]
>
> >>I have had no trouble with 250 GB SATA disks with OpenSuse or Gentoo
> >>2005.1. They (4 in one box) even worked fine as a logical volume. How
> >>are the SATA set in the BIOS? I use mine as JBOD, not RAID of any sort.
> >
> > It would depend on the type of controller.  NVIDIA's SATA controller has
> > RAID support (albeit limited) which is enabled/disabled in the BIOS.
>
> How do you define "limited"?  I have seen some of the boards that claim
> RAID support for SATA, it seems like an extra transistor or two on the
> controller chip that can be accessed by a windoze driver.

You get RAID0 and RAID1.


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