[CentOS] asrock 775 dual-vsta mb and linux with sata raid

Sun Feb 11 05:17:55 UTC 2007
Sam Giraffe <sam at giraffetech.biz>

Northbrdige via pt880 pro/ultra chipset
Southbridge via vt8237a

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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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