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Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Well, here's a pretty kettle of fish, and no mistake. |
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> Having had this dual-Opteron box for over two years with just plain IDE |
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> disks, I decided it was time to bite the bullet and plug in a couple of |
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> SATAs. So I did. The motherboard has a VIA chipset with what turns out to be |
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> firmware RAID, though I had thought in my innocence that anything in the |
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> chipset would be hardware |
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Be very careful with that "raid" controller. if there was a "raid" |
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array setup and the discs that you plugged in don't match what the |
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controller thinks then it ends up killing your partition tables if you |
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try to delete the old data. |
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Mike Doty kingtaco@g.o |
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