Em Qui, 2005-04-14 às 15:41 -0700, Jesse Keating escreveu: > > Almost every board that has come through our labs with SATA capability > and advertised RAID capability has the option to disable the RAID > portion of these chips. Hey... That's not entirely true. I have been working for a computer manufacturer here in brazil. They're selling a hardware based on msi boards, with a via 6410 ide raid on it. It cannot be disabled. You may use it without creating a raid, but the capability is there. > A lot of this started with WinModems. Modems that lacked actual > hardware devices and relied on software emulation. This was followed by > some Promise IDE 'raid' chips that basically did the same thing. Relied > on an OS level driver to do all the RAID operations. These SATA 'raid' > chips are hardly different. The generic term 'win-something' has been > stolen from 'winmodems' and applied elsewhere. > Basically it doesn't work in Linux right now, don't use it. Hum... We released a custom linux with driver for it (in 2.4.25, don't ask) and it seems to work, as we sell an average of 1200 of them/month.