[CentOS] Re: Centos 4 and Supermicro ICH7R

[Scott Silva]

ricardo oliveira spake the following on 2/14/2007 11:23 AM:
> Hi:
> 
> I've tried to install centos 4.3 in a raid array, setuped on bios as
> mode "Adaptec". The chip is  ICH7R but centos always sees 2 drives
> instead of the array that I create.
> I've contacted Supermicro support and they gave me this link
> ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SATA/Adaptec_ICH7R/Linux/Redhat/ , but
> the disk drivers I tried to use with centos 4.3 did not work, saying
> that the disk did not containt appropriate drivers for the hardware.
> 
> Have anyone here had similar problems? does centos 4.4 solves this issue?
> 
> I really need to install centos as an array... and as hardware RAID
> and not software RAID.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Ricardo
The ICH7R is not a real raid controller. It is a software raid with bios level
support or fakeraid.
See  http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html


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