On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:41:05 GMT, Curious George
wrote:

Now do you see what I've been talkin' bout "Kony?"

You don't seem to see what I've been talking about. I
didn't suggest RAID0 here EITHER.


or do you still think all raid implementations are equally useful &
time-saving?

I never advocate RAID0 unless user has a viable additional
backup. Generally speaking I typically recommend against
RAID 0 even when it's the expressed goal of the poster.
There ARE other alternatives than just SCSI or RAID0 ATA,
but you ignored this in a prior thread because it didn't
suit your argument.

I just hope that if he gets a 'new' motherboard (like from ebay or
sometihing) the onboard controller can get the config off the drives..

"Hope"? This is an example of what I'd posted in a prior
thread, that I advise one not to learn _while_ setting up a
data storage subsystem but prior to doing so.
I also suspect you've not spend enough time dealing with ATA
RAID to be able to properly contrast it to any other...

There's no need to hope, if the drives are physically and
logically intact (that is - if the motherboard was the
*only* failure point, no damage to drives) then same
controller with same/similar bios will work. Towards that
end, if the motherboard RAID bios version is unknown it
might be easier to use a PCI card to recover, since flashing
a different bios is likely far easier than determining the
RAID bios version used on the old board (if manufacturer
didn't provide full documentation, though decompressing the
motherboard bios version is an alternate method of
determining this), in the off chance that the default bios
on such a PCI card wouldn't work... though it probably will.
There are also bios tools like CBROM or awardmod
http://awardmod.sourceforge.net/
that can even be used to extract the raid bios from the
original motherboard's bios, and swap it into a new board's
bios to ensure same raid bios version.