[CentOS] Re: Centos 4 and Supermicro ICH7R

[Johnny Hughes]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 09:28 -0800, Scott Silva wrote:
> Johnny Hughes spake the following on 2/15/2007 1:09 AM:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 19:23 +0000, ricardo oliveira wrote:
> >> Hi:
> >>
> >> 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/Redhat/ , 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?
> >>
> >> I really need to install centos as an array... and as hardware RAID
> >> and not software RAID.
> >>
> > 
> > You have probably already seen all the other posts ... however I want to
> > make sure everybody understands...
> > 
> > The RAID that is built onto the motherboards on almost all these
> > chipsets _IS_NOT_HARDWARE_RAID_ ... any more than a win Modem is a real
> > modem.
> > 
> > The RAID really is just software raid _WITH_A_PROPRIETARY_DRIVER_ .
> > 
> > The proprietary nature of that driver makes it much less stable than
> > linux software raid.
> > 
> > So, as others have mentioned, buy a REAL hardware RAID card ... like
> > vmware ... or use software RAID.
> I'm sure you meant 3ware here. One of those days! ;-)

vmware ...  3ware ... ARGH :(

You are obviously quite correct ... thanks :P
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