O/H fredex έγραψε:
Hi Gang!
I've got this (now old) Gigabyte motherboard (GA-7N400 Pro2), I've had it
for just over 3 years.
I use it, so far, with only PATA devices.
I'm toying with the idea of buying a matched pair of SATA drives and when
I install Centos 5 (hopefully soon), building it with software raid (using
the two drives as mirrors of each other).
I have this exact board (Rev 1.x) and it has been working solid for
years now. However, even if this is not a straight answer to your
question, I have to warn you about several speed problems concerning the
on-board RAID controllers (either SATA or PATA).
How to recreate the problem:
First get the latest BIOS for this mobo, it must be the F11 and Gigabyte
has never released a newer version.
Second create a RAID volume through the RAID-BIOS (PATA or SATA, I
tested heavily on PATA) and watch as your disk speed crawls to the floor
(yes even on M$ OSes).
This is fixed in later BIOS revisions of the RAID chips, but since they
are integrated on the board, these BIOSes are updated only when the main
BIOS is updated (The main BIOS file contains the BIOSes for the RAID chips)
The solution is to mod your BIOS with the most recent RAID BIOS.
More info here...
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/image-vp567696.html
I have followed these instructions to the letter and have successfully
modded my F11 BIOS to overcome the disk speed problem using the
pseudo-hardware RAID controller.
RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens
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Thanos Rizoulis
Electronic Computing Systems Engineer
Larissa, Greece
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