FC4t2 no good without LILO

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Guy Fraser wrote:

>I tried for a couple weeks, but the "engineers" could give me 
>nothing that would help, and at the time they had the snotty 
>attitude.
>
>Yesterday I was told that add-on PCI SATA {Non-RAID} controllers 
>were not standard. We have been told many times on the list that 
>on-board SATA RAID is no good and shouldn't be used. It has also 
>been said that add-on PCI SATA RAID is also no good. Since I have 
>never found a Motherboard that supports SATA on-board that does 
>not have RAID, I have no idea what the "engineers" have been using 
>to test SATA. It seems like just another runaround.
>
>  
>
I guess you misunderstood what they said. What they mean (and everybody 
else around the world means) is : use the onboard controller as a SATA 
controller , but *ignore* the advertised RAID features. This "raid" isnt 
a hardware raid , but a win-raid , kinda like the winmodems werent real 
hardware modems...

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Pedro Macedo