I was *told* that it was hardware raid 5, *however* that said, I will check. They knew I was not and would not ever be using windoze and the raid configuration *is* done from bios but as you said, it is possible it is not a true XOR based hardware raid. I will not be using Dual boot and if I did need WIndoze, I would wear VMware rubber gloves :) When I test Alpha software, I always load it under VMware first to see what 'gotchas' show up but this is a new machine and new hardware with no OS yet installed. Thanks for the tip. Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 6/20/07, Richard Creighton
wrote: At the risk of appearing stupid, which I am willing to do, I recently purchased a ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard with intergral RAID5 hardware controller. I also purchased 4 WD 400G SATA drives to make a 1.09T (usable space) raid5 array under Linux, SUSE 10.2. <snip>
I don't know about your MB, but most onboard raid is fake-raid.
http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html
If yours is fake-raid and you don't need Windows dual boot capability, then using software raid is your preferred choice. ie. Fake raid does NOT offload any CPU load, it just allows Windows users to have a Raid setup tool prior to installing windows.
If you need dual boot to the raid, the you can look at the dmraid module and see if your controller is supported.
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