Hi guys, Is anyone running a raid configuration on this controller? I just tried it out and for some reason, regardless of of the raid level, SUSE still sees two discs, while it should see only one, right? There isn't a lot one can set in the raid card's bios, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas? Thanks Hans
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 20:19 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Hi guys,
Is anyone running a raid configuration on this controller? I just tried it out and for some reason, regardless of of the raid level, SUSE still sees two discs, while it should see only one, right?
There isn't a lot one can set in the raid card's bios, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Any ideas?
Thanks Hans
It is not a true hardware raid controller. Thus the driver does the RAID. The Linux driver does not support the RAID level of the card. It is best to use software raid. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com
Brad Dameron wrote:
It is not a true hardware raid controller. Thus the driver does the RAID. The Linux driver does not support the RAID level of the card. It is best to use software raid.
I suspected as much. Just needed to confirm Thanks Hans
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 15:39 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Brad Dameron wrote:
It is not a true hardware raid controller. Thus the driver does the RAID. The Linux driver does not support the RAID level of the card. It is best to use software raid.
I suspected as much. Just needed to confirm
I found the same a couple of weeks ago about the Silicon Image "RAID" SATA controller :( FWIW, a couple of links that list BIOS emulated RAID v/s hardware RAID SATA controllers. http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html Linux Driver for "fake (bios) raid" controller cards: http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/rpm/ No experience with above, IMO useful only if you use the RAID volume to define partitions for multi OS (MS Windows) system. HTH, -- Arun Khan Linux is like a wigwam - no gates, no windows, apache inside
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