Re: SATA RAID 0 on nforce2 400 ultra chipset

[Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>]

Andras Lorincz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an asus a7n8x-xe mobo and I thought to buy two SATA hard drives 
> to set them up to work in RAID 0. Is RAID supported for this chipset 
> because I don't want to buy the hard drives in vain? If yes, could 
> someone point me a howto because I never had any experience with RAID. 
> Thanks.
The nForce is a fakeraid, i.e. it isn't actually RAID but software raid 
with a BIOS GUI thrown on. So if you're thinking of hardware RAID, no 
you can't do it. You can easily do Linux software raid over you two 
drives, which is what I use on my VIA/SiliconImage chipset combination 
with 4 drives. Read the Software RAID HOWTO for more info: 
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

HTH,
Chris

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