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Mow
11-28-2003, 03:51 PM
But instead of asking how to get it to work ...... I'm going to post my results.

First this WILL work in RAID 0 if you use the right distro and the drivers from Silicon Images webiste (follow their install instructions)

Here is my rig (well the stuff that matters);

A7N8X Deluxe
2 WD Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA drives in RAID 0
Red Hat 9

First the install sees these drives as SCSI (due to the SCSI chasis I would assume)

so here is my hdparm scores:

hdparm -tT /dev/sda:

buffer-cache reads: 128 mb in 0.27 seconds = 474.07 MB/sec

buffered disk reads: 64 mb in 0.61 seconds = 104.92 MB/sec

It took 9 minutes to load a basic Red Hat install from format to reboot.

As I said follow the instructions and things will work fine. The downside is you have to use either Red Hat or SuSE (for now)..... but with getting 104 mb a sec I can live with it I think :)