As part of a (Dell) server purchase, a client was given a free Dell 750 PowerEdge (Celeron) box with 2 x 120GB SATA drives... Opening the lid (as you do :) revealed that the motherboard has on-board SATA, but Dell had also plugged in an Adaptec 6-port SATA RAID card, and connected the 2 drives to that. Now I'm wondering why Dell have the capacity to give away free servers (I know someone else who got a free server out of them a while back) and why they'd put in a (presumably) expensive RAID controller... Maybe the mobo controllers are knackererd in some way? Anyway, I'm tempted to just remove the Adaptec card and give the on-board controllers a go using s/w RAID which I know and love... Anyone got any comments either way? Cheers, Gordon - 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
