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Re: Asus K7V motherboard and Promise RAID bios patch on Linux?



On Sunday 15 May 2005 15:57, Bob Freemer wrote:
> The "RAID" chip on most motherboards, including the K7V, is really done
> by a software driver.  You can do software RAID in linux from any IDE
> channels, making the "RAID" chip uselesss.  However, some of the RAID
> motherboards have extra IDE channels.  This IS useful, as you can add
> more disks to your array.

Oh, is that all the K7V RAID does?  Aye, may as well just use software then.  
At least I don't feel so bad about having the Promise controller "dumbed 
down" on this model by changing a single wire.  Thanks :)

-- 
Lee.



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