On Saturday 21 June 2008 12:22:58 Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 21 June 2008 13:08:29 Bob Williams wrote:
On Saturday 21 June 2008 09:14:47 Anders Johansson wrote:
...quoting Bob:
Continuing the boot process, I expected the OS (openSUSE 10.3) to see only the logical drive, but YaST partitioner reported two new Western Digital drives, /dev/sdf and /dev/sdg. I can combine them into a software RAID, but that seems wasteful and redundant, given that I've spent GBP85 on a hardware controller.
Well, no you haven't. A hardware controller would have presented the RAID as a single disk. The fact that you see two means that it's a so-called fake-RAID card, where the RAID functionality is in the driver
Hmm. I thought I'd avoided that particular trap :(
The following lines from dmesg seem to suggest that the kernel is loading a driver module:
Of course a driver gets loaded, otherwise you wouldn't see the disks at all :)
It's just that the open source driver doesn't seem to support the fakeRAID functionality of the closed source driver
With a real hardware RAID that wouldn't be a concern. With real hardware RAID, the controller only shows one disk, and the OS never has an option of anything else
Understood. Many thanks. Bob -- Bob Registered Linux User #463880 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 10.3, Kernel 2.6.22.17-0.1-default, KDE 3.5.7 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org