Re: "rock solid" motherboard
On Saturday 12 March 2005 13:03, Superuserman wrote:
> I should revise my explanation here:
> > I can have 4 disks in DOS (c:, d:, e:, and f:) and then
> > turn on the RAID1 mode and there is just one disk c: only.
> > If that is RAID0 then the c: must be 4-formatted first.
> > That doesn't use any drivers or software except plain DOS.
>
> The 4 disks would actually be RAID0+1 or RAID0 not just
> RAID1. I went back and edited poorly.
>
> I tested using one SATA disk and one PATA disk in RAID1
> mode. The SATA disk was drive f: and the PATA disk was
> drive g: in DOS. Then I turned on the mirroring and there
> was only a drive f: and the mirroring worked. I could
> turn off the RAID1 and check each disk in DOS. There were
> no special drivers for the SATA or the RAID1.
What has this got to do with anything? DOS does not talk to the hardware, it
only talks to the bios. That's also why you don't need any drivers. You can't
extrapolate based how things work in DOS, and expect those assumptions to
hold for a real operating system (eg. windows or linux).
Paul
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