Intel SATA RAID (ICH5R)

[James Wilkinson]

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Technically, it doesn't have RAID. 
> What it has is the ability to define *software* RAID inside the BIOS. 
> Basically it is something that is possible with any chipset, it is all 
> the BIOS thingy.  I'm suprised that no marketing guy came with the idea 
> in pre-SATA days.

They did. There were a number of Highpoint and Promise chips, in
particular, that tended to get integrated onto motherboards.

James.

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