Re: Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2004-01-05 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:17:13PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:12:35AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Fre, 2004-01-02 um 19.25 schrieb Ramasubramanian Ramesh: > > >It is my understanding that a PATA IDE drive can be connected > > >to SATA adapter with some cable

Re: Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2004-01-04 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:12:35AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Fre, 2004-01-02 um 19.25 schrieb Ramasubramanian Ramesh: > >It is my understanding that a PATA IDE drive can be connected > >to SATA adapter with some cable mod or > >some thing like that. Am I correct? > > I don'

Re: Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2004-01-03 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Fre, 2004-01-02 um 19.25 schrieb Ramasubramanian Ramesh: > Matthias, > >Thanks a lot for your reply. This is very comprehensive and to the point. >Thank you again. You made my day. Im glad you found my post informative. >I believe in time, the VIA solution will appear.Until then

Re: Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2004-01-02 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Matthias, Thanks a lot for your reply. This is very comprehensive and to the point. Thank you again. You made my day. I believe in time, the VIA solution will appear.Until then I will use SATA. It is my understanding that a PATA IDE drive can be connected to SATA adapter with some cable mo

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-31 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2003-12-30 um 20.46 schrieb Ramasubramanian Ramesh: [...] > 1) SATA is usable as host. Therefore Linux will see the disks attached to this > controller just > like other IDE disks - but perhaps as scd0 and scd1. SATA-disks in "enhanced" mode (SATA and full PATA enabled) are recogniz

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:32:43 -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > All, > > I suppose I was not clear about the reason for using the on mobo RAID > chipsets. I simply want to have the ability to use more than 4 IDE > devices. I thought using the on board RAID controller was a easy > solutio

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard. > 4

2003-12-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ramesh On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > All I want to do is to have the ability to run 4 IDE harddrives and 2 > CD/DVD ROM/RW drives. you can use the onboard raid port as plain ole ide ... just plug in a cable and see , dont forget to eanbel the bios to look for "r

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
All, I suppose I was not clear about the reason for using the on mobo RAID chipsets. I simply want to have the ability to use more than 4 IDE devices. I thought using the on board RAID controller was a easy solutions. I suppose not. All I want to do is to have the ability to run 4 IDE harddr

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard. - yup

2003-12-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya alex On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:49, Alvin Oga wrote: > --snip-- > > 3ware (raid cards) has readily available and easily understandable raid > > drivers for their cards > > > > hw raid -- you're stuck with what they give you for driver support >

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:49, Alvin Oga wrote: --snip-- > 3ware (raid cards) has readily available and easily understandable raid > drivers for their cards > > hw raid -- you're stuck with what they give you for driver support >and monitoring > > sw raid .. do what you like to your hearts cont

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Henrique, Thanks for your reply. I suppose there is no point in buying a mobo with these extra chipsets as most of them seem to be not supported at this point. A simple followup. This is what I understand from your answers. Please correct me if I am wrong. 1) SATA is usable as host. The

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ramesh On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > 1) All most all of the newer motherboards come with SATA RAID. Is this usable >as is without any additional kernel drivers. I ask this because I read in >many knowledge base resources that a HW controller looks just lik

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > 1) All most all of the newer motherboards come with SATA RAID. Is this usable >as is without any additional kernel drivers. I ask this because I read in >many knowledge base resources that a HW controller looks just like an IDE >c