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Soeren Schmidt wrote:

>>So that drives could be assigned to a mirror / stripe set before installing without
>>having to build the mirror on another machine first?
>>(in this case the BIOS does not help)
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>You cant boot from a stripe on a controller that doesn't have a BIOS
>to do it.
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Sure, but I can boot off a mirror, which I actually do in a few cases. 
Most ATA RAID controllers
seem to be targeted towards home-user and thus do not support unattended 
operation.

I just can't create the mirror while installing. 

I just wish there would either be more functionality in the twe driver 
or somebody would come
out with 8-12 port SATA controller. Looking at the issues for example 
the Adaptec SCSI RAIDs
have, it seems SATA will take them over quite quickly.

Pete
 

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