Thanks, I had disabled RAID, but the installer is still not recognizing the 250GB SATA drives...do I have to load any particular driver?

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Rogge Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 6:07 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] asrock 775 dual-vsta mb and linux with sata raid

Hello,

I don't know the board, but I know Asrock. I'm almost absolutely sure this is fakeraid. It won't work well with linux. The Hostadapter has only limited RAID-features. Just enough to get the os running to the point where it loads a specialized driver that does the actual raid- stuff. I'd suggest you disable RAID on the board and use CentOS' software RAID.

Regards, Andreas Rogge

Am Samstag, den 10.02.2007, 02:40 -0500 schrieb Sam Giraffe:

Hello,

I have the subject mentioned mb and I am trying to install centos 4.4 with sata raid enabled, but linux is not seeing the drives? I tried to load via sata raid driver, no luck there. I guess I could try legacy mode in the bios, but I was hoping there is another way around to load linux with the raid?

Thanks....

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Northbrdige via pt880 pro/ultra chipset Southbridge via vt8237a

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of William Warren Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 6:34 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] asrock 775 dual-vsta mb and linux with sata raid

which chipset does that board have?

Sam Giraffe wrote:

Thanks, I had disabled RAID, but the installer is still not recognizing

the

250GB SATA drives...do I have to load any particular driver?

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Of Andreas Rogge Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 6:07 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] asrock 775 dual-vsta mb and linux with sata raid

Hello,

I don't know the board, but I know Asrock. I'm almost absolutely sure this is fakeraid. It won't work well with linux. The Hostadapter has only

limited

RAID-features. Just enough to get the os running to the point where it

loads

a specialized driver that does the actual raid- stuff. I'd suggest you disable RAID on the board and use CentOS' software RAID.

Regards, Andreas Rogge

Am Samstag, den 10.02.2007, 02:40 -0500 schrieb Sam Giraffe:

...

Hello,

I have the subject mentioned mb and I am trying to install centos 4.4 with sata raid enabled, but linux is not seeing the drives? I tried to load via sata raid driver, no luck there. I guess I could try legacy mode in the bios, but I was hoping there is another way around to load linux with the raid?

Thanks....

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On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 at 3:38pm, Mel wrote

What I did find was that I could get the drives to appear as independent drives. I installed them as 2 drives. I plan on using rsync to keep them identical.

Erm, why not us the rather excellent software RAID (md) to RAID1 those drives?

On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:39 +0800, Mel wrote:

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

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Erm, why not us the rather excellent software RAID (md) to RAID1 those drives?

I am in the middle of this.

If I don't disable device mapper, I can't use both drives and I can't seem to be able to reboot -- I usually get an error with disk labels.

My goal is to finally get them RAIDed.

I will start looking at what other choices I have soon.

I will look into your recommendation -- Thanks.

dmraid does cause cause problems on some chipsets