Time to Upgrade - Serial ATA Anyone?

I finally got a new job - after being unemployed for 17 months! It's
working out great, but I now need to be able to support more things for
working from home. My boss just gave me a hardware VPN router to plug in
this weekend (pretty cool, huh!) and I now need a lot more disk space.
So, here we go: Buy new couch, need new curtains, buy new disk, need new
processor, RAM...

Anyway, I have decided on and ordered the following upgrades for my
home-built system currently running (Null):

        * Pentium 4 @ 2.53 Ghz
        * 1GB RAM
        * ASUS P4S8X motherboard - a SiS 648 North Bridge / SiS 963
          South Bridge Chipset, 533Mhz front side bus board with all the
          options (Serial ATA, 6XUSB2, S/PDIF, IEEE1394, AGP 3.0,
          6-Channel C-Media 9739 CODEC, 10/100 Ethernet)

Now, here's the problem: My new MB supports the new Serial ATA spec.
It's an on-board Promise controller supporting 1 ATA133 channel and two
Serial ATA connectors. I would like to be able to run RAID on my system,
but am not 100% certain it will work with (Null). Any chance this is
going to be supported? I can't find anything specific. I'm also about to
buy drives for my new system as well. I'm pretty sure most all of the
rest of the stuff on this board will work, anyone else have experience
with similar components?

This system should be smokin' bloody fast no matter how you slice it,
but I would really like to know how to make (Null) and Red Hat 8 take
full advantage of my new hardware. Suggestions welcome.

By the way, I already ordered what's listed above, so please don't tell
me I have to change it. Suggestions on 100GB to 120GB Serial ATA disk
drives are welcome and greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Chris Williams


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