Far better to use the Linux software RAID, which is more flexible and will let you move the disks to a different box, to recover data if your PC fails.
These IDE chipset RAIDs, rely on drivers, so if you are misguided enough to be determined to use a proprietary driver, for your data, which is not going to be used by anyone sensible, then try to find Linux suport for this RAID at the Nvidia site. This "solution" if it exists, would aslo make future kernel updates for security patches troublesome. Don't do it!
Usually the Linux RAID1, RAID0 & RAID10 is faster than these driver fake hardware RAID's anyway, because cheap controllers don't offload enough of the work from the CPU. The Linux RAID may also know more about the Block I/O layer, allowing better optimisations, than at device level.
RobRunsLinux
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December 13th, 2007 06:00
These IDE chipset RAIDs, rely on drivers, so if you are misguided enough to be determined to use a proprietary driver, for your data, which is not going to be used by anyone sensible, then try to find Linux suport for this RAID at the Nvidia site. This "solution" if it exists, would aslo make future kernel updates for security patches troublesome. Don't do it!
Usually the Linux RAID1, RAID0 & RAID10 is faster than these driver fake hardware RAID's anyway, because cheap controllers don't offload enough of the work from the CPU. The Linux RAID may also know more about the Block I/O layer, allowing better optimisations, than at device level.