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Subject: Re: Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated
 RAID controller
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At 06:36 PM 9/15/2007, Karl Denninger wrote:

>I'm not all that interested in using it as a RAID adapter.  I am, however,
>interested in using it as a disk adapter, as a way to both spread load AND
>benefit from its cache memory.

Can you not turn off the RAID feature in the BIOS so that the SATA 
ports work just as SATA disks ?

         ---Mike