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From: The Breadmaster on 23 Apr 2008 18:14
I am looking into building a media server/internet gateway, and I'm
thinking about the M2N-SLI as it has an onboard RAID-5 controller and
dual gigabit ethernet. I plan to run Ubuntu 7.10 on it. Video and
sound are not important, the machine is going to live in a closet.
Access will be via samba for files, and ssh for administration. (I
may think about running some sort of remote display technology like
VNC or X to access the gui later on.)

Questions:
- Has anybody tried ubuntu 7.10 with this board? Does it just work
out of the box or do you need to mess around with drivers?

- I know the board has six SATA slots - can I make a single RAID-5
with six drives? If I did that, would I be able to boot from it? If
not, what are the limitations? The manual is pretty unclear on what
exactly you can and can't do with the RAID controller. I'm thinking
6*750GB drives would be plenty of storage for a while.

thanks

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