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. > > Best Regards, > Ricardo Ricardo, I have a SuperMicro as well and could not get the Adaptec to work either. I purchased a MegaRAID SCSI 320-2X (532) and am in the process of doing some testing with it right now. So far it is working perfectly. I have it set up as RAID 1 for the operating system and RAID 5 for the database drives. Other reports I received on the Adaptec spooked me from using it. Good Luck!!! Greg Ennis