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/Redha
t/ , 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?
Yep, I have ran into similar probs with adp94xx drivers from IBM/Adaptec. Quite a pain in the ass. The drivers endedup working, but took some trickery. I ended up getting the installer going, then switching to the second virtual terminal, mounting the .img disk, then manually insmod'ing the the kernel module. *Then* it actually found the disks, and the install could continue.
I really need to install centos as an array... and as hardware RAID
and not software RAID.
Lots of other people have covered the hardware-vs-software/fakeRAID stuff. Linux software RAID works great. Hotswap works well too if you are concerned about that.
Mike