On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On 2008-03-06, RS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'll be using a cheap Athlon X2 / 1GB / Gig ethernet / mATX board to
> > complete the setup. I will definitely use OpenBSD's RAIDCtl for RAID 1
> > instead of the crappy on-board chips motherboard makers ship nowadays.
>
> The on-board RAID on cheap boards is typically software RAID with
> BIOS assistance to help it boot and as you probably know isn't supported
> here at all.
>

The bigger question is - exactly what do you want?  If this is an inside the
house box, not running pf, etc, I would seriously consider opensolaris.  ZFS
is incredibly easy to set up, and serves nfs/samba pretty easily.  raidz is
pretty good.



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