On 4/4/07, Mário Gamito mgamito@telbit.pt wrote:
It has a VIA hardware RAID controller model VT-8251.
They'd like you to think that, and their marketing team works hard at pushing this belief. What you've got there is considered FAKERAID. Mostly they put software raid on a chip and farm out all the work to the CPU. At most you can use these to connect extra disks to the system. At worst, they'll get in the way and prevent installs. It's along the same line as the 'winmodems' or software modems that everyone was touting before cable and DSL was cool.
Problem is that CentOS installation doesn't recognize any hard drives at all.
Far as I know, support for this chipset didn't make it into the kernel til around 2.6.17 or so. It *might* be supported in centos5 (you can try the beta if you like) but I don't believe it's supported for centos4, on the 2.6.9-* kernel versions.
The BIOS setup doesn't have an option to turn off SATA.
Any ideas ?
Ignore that controller and get yourself a 3ware card?