Hi folks: I've contacted Supermicro Europe Support, and they were awesome! They sent me the drivers for RHEL U3/U4 ... So I'll test them today... Hope it works! Ricardo On 2/15/07, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote: > 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. > > Also, as others have mentioned, please search for "fake raid" or "fraid" > on google for more information. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >