But.... did you use software RAID on the other identical machine you installed with the older disk? P. Nikos Zaharioudakis wrote: >Unfortunately the "Raid controller " that the hardware says that >comes with, uses a software driver in order to perform the raid >functions. So to make the long story short just use the OS soft raid >functionality > >Have fun. >Good day > >Nikos > >On 5/7/05, Jonathan <j at firebright.com> wrote: > > >>List: >> >>Good morning. I'm hoping someone is still up who can lend me an ear. >>I'm sitting on the floor of Mae West surrounded by disassembled servers, >>frustrated out of my mind. Same as last weekend. ;-) >> >>Actually, I'm having a weird issue. I have a Dell 420SC in front of >>me. It's a fine machine, brand new. p4 2.8 800Mhz bus, 1GB DDR2 >>(2x512) and dual 80GB drives. I've used the onboard raid to build a >>raid-0+1 (mirror) raid array. The problem is, it's telling me as soon >>as I load up the setup for CentOS 4 that no drives are available and >>that I should load up some. >> >>Odd. >> >>I have three machines running CentOS 4 over here with the identical >>specs, and identical settings. One even has the exact same >>configuration, including raid setup, and it's running happily. But it >>was installed from and older CentOS 4 disk (got scratched). I've got >>about 12 more to do tonight. How is it possible that the same machine >>with concurrent serial numbers won't load RAID? Is there some trick? >> >>I'm really at a loss on this one. I'm on the 14th floor. Now if I >>could get one of these windows to open, I think I have a very easy >>solution... >> >>Anyone have any experience with this? Is there some trick to getting >>these 420SC's to load CentOS? >> >>Thanks in advance. >> >>Jonathan >>_______________________________________________ >>CentOS mailing list >>CentOS at centos.org >>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> > > > >