On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:25:37 -0700, George Toft wrote
> I have the same mobo and am using the RAID1 feature. Works fine
> with no drivers.
>
> Here's how to test your RAID, since you don't have any critical data
> yet.... pull the SATA drive cable off one drive (sata0) and see if
> it boots :) If it boots, then it's working correctly. Reattach the
> cable, reboot, and let the mirror rebuild and repeat for the other drive.
>
> Having used hardware and software RAID, I am a firm believer is
> software RAID for the following reason: You can monitor the status
> of the RAID set via the Linux proc filesyste and generate alerts if
> it ever breaks. With this Abit board, I have no idea if the RAID
> set is broken or not, except to watch BIOS as it reboots.
>
> There is some pretty good support for S.M.A.R.T. in Linux, and you
> can use that to monitor the health of the drives. Combine that with
> /proc monitoring, and you will have a pretty good monitor for your
> hard drives.
Thx George -- I'm going to give this a shot. Just to clarify, you have all
the RAID settings on the mobo turned off so the config is all software?
Jeff
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