On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 17:36:10 +0000, David Fletcher <fc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It has two SATA connectors and the data states that it can do RAID 0 and 1. > Question is, is it likely to be a proper hardware raid on this board or will > it have to be software RAID like the OP has installed? If it is a cheap raid controller without battery backed cache, you probably don't want to have it doing raid, just use the software raid (not dmraid) instead. It may be faster and you won't be tied to specific hardware.