Date:  Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:59:41 +0200
From:  Kristian Eklund <kristian.eklund (at mark) monostar.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:09646] Re: Slightly OT: SATA Card in older hardware
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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It should work just fine. I would recommend a  smaller drive for the 
operating system.

/Kristian

Loel Larzelere skrev:
> *The goal is to install a PCI SATA RAID card in a p-III vintage machine 
> for a cheap NAS box.  The question is, will we be limited by the 
> motherboard BIOS to how big the partitions are, or will the SATA card 
> govern this?  Or does it depend on the card?  We are thinking 4 - 500 gb 
> drives in a dual mirrored array (2 - 500 gb mirrored pairs).*
> ** 
> *Any thoughts?*
> ** 
> *Loel*
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