I have seen Ubuntu do freakishly well in running on these on-board raid configurations, My first experience was with an Intel matrix storage IF on my Intel mainboard, ansd it works like a champ. I do not know the ins and outs of it as i went back to windows (long story best left for another thread) On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: > James Dugger wrote: >> >> I'm new to PLUG and new to LINUX but I have jumped in head first.  By >> head first I mean I have removed XP off of 4 desktops and Vista off my >> HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop and installed Ubuntu 10.04 i386 on each.  I >> have built an new headless server with and AMD Athelon (tripple core) >> 64bit chip and 2GB of DDR2 DRAM to be used as a file server, and print >> server to 3 printers.  I have installed 3 - 1TB drives in a RAID 5 >> array (Configured as RAID on main board BIOS, no PCI controller) and >> software controlled using the OS which is Ubuntu 10.04 Server AMD >> 64bit. > > I think you want to disable RAID on the MB, and let Linux handle the raid > processing (aka software raid). I'm not sure what happens with the > configuration you've described. > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss