Does anyone know whether the SATA RAID feature on this motherboard is hardware or software? I want to fit two 10,000rpm SATA disks as a RAID0 and have them perform as the boot disk for a Linux (Debian sarge) installation. If it is hardware, is the RAID configured in the BIOS setup?

I've only used dedicated RAID controller cards in the past so have no idea how this stuff works, and the Asus site isn't that forthcoming on the details. If I can get this to work then the machine should be killer, with an Athlon 64 3700 1MB L2 and 2GB DDR400. Its purpose in life will be running GCC and other build tools, hence the wish for very fast disk access.

Thanks

Rob