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Originally Posted by Grayson
Hi guys.
AFIK the RAID chips on the motherboard are hardware RAID and thus bootable. You use a special utility to set them up and configure them as the boot device in the BIOS. The only thing lacking is RAID levels above 0, 1, and 0+1 and any RAM cache that the interface cards provide
Grayson
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They are bootable, but still offload all processing to the host CPU, and are thusly categorized as a software solution.
Read up on the way PIO works; it's very similar.
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WXP Pro:
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W2K3:
4x P3 Xeon 500 512KB (4 clients)
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