OpenSUSE, Anyone?

[Net Llama!]

On 10/04/2005 09:06 PM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 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]
>>>
>>>
>>>>>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....

You enable RAID in the SBIOS, then set up the RAID in the SATA 
controller BIOS.  As far as the OS is concerned, its a single drive.

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