On Thu, 2005-14-04 at 11:32 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:06:12AM -0600, Guy Fraser wrote: > > New machines pretty mush only come with onboard SATA RAID > > which you guys keep saying should never be used. > > The "RAID" features of the onboard SATA shouldn't be used. But the SATA > controller certianly can/should. > Hum. Do you mean, just don't use any mirroring and or striping, or do you mean changing some setting so that raid is disabled. If you mean the latter I have never seen such an option. If you mean the first scenario, that is what I have done. It is strange that these limitations exist, because the on-board SATA RAID works fine with FreeBSD, but were not going to discuss that here. For those who use the term "winraid" to descibe some kind of inferior software raid, I would suggest that you explain what you mean by don't use it, in light of this post. > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>