[Wolves] hardware question

[Adam Sweet]

--- Simon Burke <simon.burke at gmail.com> wrote:

> The motherboard is an Abit Socket 754 (nforce3)
> The processor is a sempron 2800+ s754. 
> 
> 754 is usually 64bit athlon isnt it? so does tha
> mean that this
> sempron is 64 or 32 bit. Im confuesd with that, but
> that maybe because
> im sleep deprived. I know that socket A are 32 bit,
> but isnt 754 64bit??

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/

If it's the board I think it (NF8 series) is then I
think it takes both, which sounds kinda weird.

> Also i have nvraid setup for my two 160Gb SATA disks
> that are also on
> this. Though when i came to setup suse 9.2 (its the
> Mrs machine) it
> didnt see the raid 1 volume i created in the raid
> setup on motherboard
> but rather the two individual disks.

The SATA thing maybe related to something I read a
while back.

Essentially many SATA RAID controllers are more
software than hardware. There is a RAID setup tool and
the Windows driver pulls it together. The RAID setup
tool therefore has no effect under Linux, you have to
do software RAID.

>From what I can glean from Google, this true of the NV
RAID controller and the Silicon Image 3112 controller
that I have, aswell as a few more probably. I've never
set it up but:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

Enjoy ;)

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