Florin Andrei spake the following on 2/15/2007 9:57 AM: > I've two machines with almost identical hardware (slightly different > CPUs). The SATA/RAID controller is SiI 3114. > > One of the servers was installed a while ago by someone else, it's > running Fedora Core 5 and RAID is enabled: > > # df -m > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/dm-6 125931 2990 116441 3% / > /dev/dm-1 99 13 81 14% /boot > tmpfs 1012 0 1012 0% /dev/shm > /dev/dm-2 9917 151 9254 2% /tmp > /dev/dm-3 9917 237 9168 3% /var > # cat /etc/modprobe.conf | tail -n 1 > alias scsi_hostadapter sata_sil > > I installed CentOS 4.4 64bit on the other system, but I could not enable > RAID. The installer was always seeing 2 separate drives instead of one > RAID device. > > Was it my mistake? Did I not enable the proper settings in the BIOS? (I > tried quite a few different settings) > > Or is it perhaps that the CentOS kernel does not have the proper drivers > to support SiI 3114 in RAID mode? > See previous posts about fakeraid. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#sil -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!