Karl R. Balsmeier wrote:
Well. It is not RAID. Just an ordinary SATA controller. See above.
disappointing, but it's true. Supermicro verified what all of you
said. And since I'm not very interested in software RAID, i'll be
dropping a hardware RAID card in and let my vendor know not to try and
sell any more of these to those intending to use a Linux OS.
I'll try out your software RAID steps to give me something to play
with till the hardware card shows up, since they are very clear and
concise. Maybe it'll soften the empty 'no hardware raid5' feeling one
has at present.
You might still have a decent motherboard even though the integrated
"RAID" is bogus. I've got a few Supermicro boards like that too. When
I need Hardware RAID, I just drop a 3Ware card in and call it a day. If
you've got the spare cpu cycles, Linux's software RAID is pretty mature
and quite fast. I was using it *in production* environments back in the
late 90's.
Cheers,
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