"stacey" wrote in message
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Noozer wrote:

Well, I decided to pick up an Asus P4C800 Deluxe mainboard (two
actually,
a -E and a non -E) and noticed something...

There is only one PATA connector for RAID. Does this mean to run RAID 0
on
PATA drives that they will share the cable? Won't this hurt performance?
I
assume that it would still be faster than a single drive
configuration...
is this correct?

I've read several people complaining about very high CPU usage when using
that via based raid controller.

Since when did VIA start making Promise chips?

The only VIA thing on these boards is the firewire.