Hi Martin,
I am using an Iwill KA266-R motherboard. It has the
AMI IDE Raid controller on the motherboard. As a test
I was able to load and configure the RAID with win2k
(for now) and it works great (the RAID stuff). This is
an AMD Athlon board with DDR memory.
The beta drivers are precompiled and distributed as
two images: boot.img and post.img files. The docs
with the drivers say to start Redhad install with the
boot.img in the floppy drive and Linux on the CD-rom
drive. Once one hits the select language dialog, one
is to hit some combination of CNTL and Fx keys to get
to a dialog where one specifies the RAID disk which
appears as a SCSI device. After going through the rest
of the install, the post.img in loaded/executed to
complete the setup.
I can find and post the entire instructions if it
makes
sense to do so. They are not too long.
Well, I do want to get the RAID up and running if at
all possible.
Right now, I have not installed Suse Linux on my PC
yet.
Thanks again!
Babu
--- Martin Webster
I just finshed putting together a new PC with an on board IDE Raid controller by AMI (American Megatrends Inc.).
After much searching I found a set of beta drivers for RedHat Linux 7.0 with instruction for installing.
My questions are:
1. Will the Redhat instruction apply to Suse installation? 2. Since I have Suse 7.1 is this going to be a problem? 3. Should I succeed in installing the drivers, once the released version of the drivers is out, can I install them without loosing the data on my HD drives? 4. Does anyone have an alternative or better solution for this? Or any experience with the same
On Friday 24 August 2001 6:22 pm, babu walad wrote: problem?
1. Don't know; a little more information about your hardware (i.e. mainboard and AMI (CMD?) RAID chip would be useful. Are the beta drivers already compiled or are sources available?
2. You may want to upgrade to kernel 2.4 since this has support for IDE RAID.
3. Always backup your data; don't take risks (been there done that).
4. Do you really need RAID?
Have a look at recent posts on Highpoint RAID controllers
(http//:www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Suse-Linux/292/0/)
to see what's involved!
M
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