On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:23:39PM +0000, ricardo oliveira enlightened us: > 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. > Then you should have purchased a hardware RAID card. What comes on the motherboard is in fact software RAID, it just uses a proprietary driver to do all the work. (Search the net for Fake RAID of FRAID). If you can't purchase something like a 3ware card, your best bet is to use the software RAID that comes with Linux. Otherwise you're just asking for a world of hurt. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263