[CentOS] Centos 4 and Supermicro ICH7R

[William Warren]

walk away from those drivers..no..run away.  That's fake raid.  use 
either md for linux software raid or get a 3ware or areca..<G>

ricardo oliveira wrote:
> Hi folks:
> 
> I've contacted Supermicro Europe Support, and they were awesome! They
> sent me the drivers for RHEL U3/U4 ... So I'll test them today... Hope
> it works!
> 
> Ricardo
> 
> On 2/15/07, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 19:23 +0000, ricardo oliveira wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >
>>
>> You have probably already seen all the other posts ... however I want to
>> make sure everybody understands...
>>
>> The RAID that is built onto the motherboards on almost all these
>> chipsets _IS_NOT_HARDWARE_RAID_ ... any more than a win Modem is a real
>> modem.
>>
>> The RAID really is just software raid _WITH_A_PROPRIETARY_DRIVER_ .
>>
>> The proprietary nature of that driver makes it much less stable than
>> linux software raid.
>>
>> So, as others have mentioned, buy a REAL hardware RAID card ... like
>> vmware ... or use software RAID.
>>
>> Also, as others have mentioned, please search for "fake raid" or "fraid"
>> on google for more information.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Johnny Hughes
>>
>>
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