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Re: SATA, RAID, A8N-E, 3800+ help

Keith Ballantyne wrote:


Hi,
I recently bought an Asus A8N-E mobo and AMD64 3800+ CPU. I then bought RAM, a case, and an ATI 300-based PCI Express 16 video card. I used netinstall sarge and managed to install 32-bit using the 2.6 kernel (as the 2.4 kernel wouldn't recognize my network card).
...a few days passed, and I realized that I wanted the 64-bit core. I recompiled the kernel, and then realized there was a 64-bit distribution, so I downloaded both the testing release (Etch) and the 31r1a netinstalls. 31r1a didn't recognize my onboard network, but Etch did.
For the 31r1a to recognize your network, if it went as in my case, the installer shouldhave proposed you with a list of network modules. You have to choose something call nforether,I believe.
...a few more days passed and I decided to buy 4 SATA II drives in an attempt to run RAID 0+1. I configured the BIOS and ran the installer, but the installer sees hda through hdd rather than a single RAID drive. In subsequent research (including this list archive) it appears that the BIOS RAID is considered 'inferior' to the software RAID support in Linux. So, my questions are: 

   1) Why is the ASUS BIOS RAID inferior to software RAID on Linux?
2) Is it possible to install 31r1a instead of the Etch release (I'm not overly keen on working with Etch, but will do it if it's a better 64-bit option...In the few days I played with 64-bit Etch it seemed to work well, but I didn't have most of the utilties I need available from the installer/package manager). 
   3) Do I need to flash the BIOS for things to work?
   4) Is ATI 300 support better in Etch?

Thanks,

ihcfan
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