Paul VanGundy wrote:

Thanks for the prompt replay David. Below are the answers to your questions:

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What hardware/distro etc are you using?
Is this an expensive (hundreds of £) card? Or an onboard/motherboard chipset?

The distro is Suse 10.1.

As a bit of trivia, Neil (who wrote and maintains linux RAID) works for Suse.

It is an onboard chipset.

In which case it's not likely to be hardware RAID.
See: http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html

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Once you answer this then it may be worth suggesting using sw-raid (in which
case we can help out) or pointing you elsewhere...

You should probably configure the BIOS to use

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That's one of the big reasons proprietary drivers suck on linux.

Ok. So this chipset has the ability to use an Intel based RAID. Would
that be better?

mmm, see the link above...

In almost any case where you are considering 'onboard' raid, linux software raid
(using md and mdadm) is a better choice.

Start here: http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Main_Page
(feel free to correct it or ask here for clarification)

Also essential reading is the mdadm man page.

David

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