NecroScumBag Posted March 4, 2004 Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 Well I am in the market of building a pc. One thing that I was wondering if MDK support RAID. Also if it does support it does it support it with SATA. Also does MDK support the new VIA 83527 chipset as well as the new nforce. Or would be better to buy a basic MLB and get a sperate RAID controller. Any suggestion would be grateful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarissi Posted March 4, 2004 Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 Much is what the kernel supports. I am not sure if there is IDE RAID support yet in mandrake. For SATA, I think kernel 2.6.x supports it. As far as the lastest Via chipsets and Nforce3 0r 4, You may have to wait for 2.6.x Others around here can fill you in better than I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eBopBob Posted March 5, 2004 Report Share Posted March 5, 2004 I have three computers, and one of them has a Seagate 160GB SATA drive, so I contacted both SuSE and Mandrake - however Mandrake never replied, yet SuSE did and they said that the current Kernel 2.4 doesn't support it perfectly however in their next release which'll have the kernel 2.6 then I'll be able to use my SATA drives. I want to use Mandrake also on my computer with SATA drives, however am going to wait until Mandrake 10 Official comes out with the 2.6 kernel which will then apparently have support for SATA. However, I've read stories of those using Mandrake 9.2 whom have SATA drives and it works for them with no problems although I don't want to try it incase I have problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted March 5, 2004 Report Share Posted March 5, 2004 Unless you wanna pay as much for the RAID controller as the PC then dont bother. SW 0+1 is as fast and secure as HW RAID. The drain on the CPU for RAID 1 is trivial and your inherent limits are the PCI bus, that is you can build a stripe deep enough to accept data fast enough for the bus not to be able to supply it fast enough. And with todays drives its not that deep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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