[CentOS] Re: SiI 3114 and RAID

[Scott Silva]

Florin Andrei spake the following on 2/15/2007 9:57 AM:
> I've two machines with almost identical hardware (slightly different
> CPUs). The SATA/RAID controller is SiI 3114.
> 
> One of the servers was installed a while ago by someone else, it's
> running Fedora Core 5 and RAID is enabled:
> 
> # df -m
> Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/dm-6               125931      2990    116441   3% /
> /dev/dm-1                   99        13        81  14% /boot
> tmpfs                     1012         0      1012   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/dm-2                 9917       151      9254   2% /tmp
> /dev/dm-3                 9917       237      9168   3% /var
> # cat /etc/modprobe.conf | tail -n 1
> alias scsi_hostadapter sata_sil
> 
> I installed CentOS 4.4 64bit on the other system, but I could not enable
> RAID. The installer was always seeing 2 separate drives instead of one
> RAID device.
> 
> Was it my mistake? Did I not enable the proper settings in the BIOS? (I
> tried quite a few different settings)
> 
> Or is it perhaps that the CentOS kernel does not have the proper drivers
> to support SiI 3114 in RAID mode?
> 
See previous posts about fakeraid.
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#sil


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