OpenSUSE, Anyone?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 06:06, 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....

For Linux, the answer to that is whatever libata supports, which the
kernel uses for this type of thing. libata is not complete. So be sure
to check there to see if you will be satisfied.

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