I own a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP motherboard, which has 4 serial-ata ports. Two of which features RAID functionality. The serial-ata controller on the motherboard is a Silicon Image 3112A (a chip which i haven't been able to find much information about, siimage.com doesn't even list it as a product). I'll soon get a new sata disk(identical to my current disk), and I would love to be able to do the following: * keep using a 2.6.* kernel * Use the RAID BIOS administration interface to stripe/administer the disks * Have both my grub, /boot / and a NTFS-windows partition reside on striped set. Is this at all possible? Can GRUB detect devices created with the on-board BIOS assisted raid? Another thing, I'm getting severely confused what I'm supposed to use as a driver for the thing. ATM I found: udev+raiddetect or the not-yet-released(or is it? maybe its just me who cant find it :]) dmraid is the way to go. Does these both use the device-mapper tool? And can anybody tell me if dmraid is 2 or 20 months aways? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
