motherboard decision help

[Markku Kolkka]

Jonathan Horne kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 30. 
maaliskuuta 2004 00:32):
> So if its software raid (when built onto the motherboard), how
> can the raid array be functional without an operating system
> on it?  I was under the impression that if you went into a
> piece of hardware's bios and set up the array, that software
> was not involved?

BIOS _is_ software. Sometimes it's called "firmware" to 
distinguish it from the OS and programs running under the OS, 
but it is machine language instructions running on the main CPU 
of the system in any case.

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	Markku Kolkka
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