[CentOS] Re: RAID1 building via hardware
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Tue Jan 30 16:55:43 UTC 2007
Patricia Bittencourt spake the following on 1/30/2007 8:27 AM:
> Hi all,
>
> I´m trying to create a RAID1 on a machine. I´ve already
> configurated BIOS (mother board, Intel, S500VSA SATA) so as to build
> RAID1 via hardware. However on CentOS Installer, when I reach "disk
> setup" screen, it shows up 2 devices (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb).
>
> Is this right (both devices being showed)?
>
> How should I proceed on this moment? If I create the partitions
> on sda, sdb will be identical?? There is no away to assure this on the
> installation, so that the doubt came to my mind...
>
> thanks in advance,
> Patricia
It sounds as though your boards raid is "fakeraid".
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
Linux will see the base controller, as the raid is not true hardware raid.
Look at the software-raid FAQ for more details.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
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