[Eug-lug] OT: Intel Motherboard forsale

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I'll chime in and say that I wasted a lot of time messing with raid only 
to figure out that it wasnt worth the time invested... I did the same 
thing you did (I even got the board at newegg...) then after having 
trouble with the sis180 onboard raid (which did work fine in windows 
(the one day i had windows on that computer), but not in linux... I got 
a pci raid controller... got it working, and tested things out, and 
determined that I wasted a lot of time for very little, and removed the 
raid card, and use the drives as regular drives...

Jamie

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:57:18PM -0800, Mr O wrote:
> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:57:18 -0800 (PST)
> From: Mr O <notanatheist at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] OT: Intel Motherboard forsale
> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug at euglug.org>
> 
> The onboard RAID would only be truly beneficial for Windows
> anyway. It's not a true hardware RAID controller though it is
> faster than most. So, as Kbob suggested, softRAID it. 
> 
> 
> --- Garl Grigsby <badd_karma at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > I made a mistake (I know, can you believe it?!?) and now you
> > have the 
> > chance to benefit from it.
> > 
> 
> > Now for the story. I recently ordered parts for a new system
> > from Newegg 
> > [2]. It wasn't until the motherboard was installed in the case
> > and I was 
> > in the bios that I realized that I had ordered the wrong board
> > (no raid 
> > controller). Apparently, in my haste I filtered for ICH8 south
> > bridge 
> > chipsets instead of ICH8R. Guess what the 'R' stands for.....
> > The total 
> > amount of time the system was powered on was less than 10
> > mins.
> > 
> > I paid ~$120 for the board delivered. I'll deliver it to you
> > for $100 
> > (obo). Locally, an equivalent board would run ~$150.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Garl
> > 
> > [1]
> > http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/dg965ry/index.htm
> > [2]
> > http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813121048
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