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. ICH7R is software raid anyways, faked in the BIOS. http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/09/fake-raid-fraid-sucks-even-more-at.html