[PLUG] BIOS, Raid 1 and Confusion

[Dan Young]

On 3/22/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> The motherboard in my shiny new computer supports Raid 0 and Raid 1. I
> went into the BIOS and set it to Raid 1, which it said was "mirroring"
> for the two 320 GB SATA II drives, both of which were visible in the
> BIOS settings.

The RAID on most consumer motherboards is colloquially known as
"fakeraid" and is very likely to not work in non-Windows operating
systems.

Do an "lspci" form the live CD then go here for the full skinny on
your particular hardware.
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#fakeraid

-- 
Dan