[ILUG] Big raid server

[Robert Sweetnam]

Who is the BIOS manufacturer?
Usually there is an option in the BIOS setup to boot from add on cards 
first.

Cheers
Robert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Moylan" <john at rte.ie>
To: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 10:50 AM
Subject: [ILUG] Big raid server


>I am building some SATA raid servers using 3Ware 9500S 8 port cards and 
>Asus A7N8X-E Mobo's with 2 Silimage Raid SATA ports built in. I would like 
>to use the 3Ware card for storage space and configure the /boot partition & 
>system disks on 2 SATA disks S/W mirrored and plugged into the Mobo.
>
> However....the mother board won't let me boot off of any SATA disks 
> attached to it once the 3Ware PCI card is installed. Does anyone know a 
> way around this - aside from using a boot floppy.
>
> John
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