On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:15:46PM -0700, John Nielsen wrote: > Hi folks- > > I'm trying to find out if there is support for integrated nForce2 RAID MCP > SATA controller already or planned in the forseeable future. > > I'm setting up a system with an MSI K7N2 Delta2 Series motherboard. Booting > from 5.3-R, the controller is detected as a generic ata controller and runs > the disks at UDMA33. I'm actually quite impressed by the hardware even > without a specialized driver, but I'd like to know what to expect in terms > of support. This RAID controler requires a software RAID implementation. We do support the necessicary RAID functionality, but apparently we don't support the meta data used by your BIOS. All your average onboard RAID system does is allow you to boot from a mirror or strip. Once you're booted, it's up to the OS to read the geometry data from the disks and proceed with software RAID support. Since there's no standard for the on-disk metadata, we only support those systems were we've managed to pry the data out of the manufacture or reverse engineer the format. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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