OpenSUSE, Anyone?

[Alma J Wetzker]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 
> 
>>Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>>
>>[snip hardware history]
>>
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>>>>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.

Can you set them up from the controller or system BIOS and *ANY* OS 
see's a single drive from a BIOS level?  If so, I may need to rethink 
current RAID on planar boards....

     -- Alma