Hi, I want to install SuSE Linux 9.1 but it doesn't recognize the SataRAID configured on the BIOS RAID configuration utility. This is the message that appears: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Error WARNING: This system has at least one hard disk with a RAID configuration sold by de BIOS as RAID that is in fact a Software Raid. We detected de folowing disks to be part of such RAID. /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd The linux kernel 2.4 support some of this systems (Fasttrack and HighPoint RocketRaid), the linux kernel 2.6 does not support them at all. If you do an installation into these disks your RAID configuration and any data on the raid will be lost. Have a look at http://portal.suse.com to learn how to migrate to a Linux Software Raid. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My hardware is: Motherboard: Tyan S2882G3NR (Dual AMD Opteron) HD Controller: Silicon Image SATARaid Controller. Thanks. Nicolás Moreno. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
Try installing a BIOS upgrade from Tyan first, the latest is 2882_202.zip http://www.tyan.com/support/html/bios_support.html On Friday 16 July 2004 17:50, Nicolás Moreno wrote:
Hi, I want to install SuSE Linux 9.1 but it doesn't recognize the SataRAID configured on the BIOS RAID configuration utility.
This is the message that appears:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- Error
WARNING: This system has at least one hard disk with a RAID configuration sold by de BIOS as RAID that is in fact a Software Raid. We detected de folowing disks to be part of such RAID.
/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
The linux kernel 2.4 support some of this systems (Fasttrack and HighPoint RocketRaid), the linux kernel 2.6 does not support them at all.
If you do an installation into these disks your RAID configuration and any data on the raid will be lost. Have a look at http://portal.suse.com to learn how to migrate to a Linux Software Raid.
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My hardware is:
Motherboard: Tyan S2882G3NR (Dual AMD Opteron) HD Controller: Silicon Image SATARaid Controller.
Thanks.
Nicolás Moreno. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
And verily, didst Janis Klava announce to the hordes:
Try installing a BIOS upgrade from Tyan first, the latest is 2882_202.zip http://www.tyan.com/support/html/bios_support.html
That won't help with SATA-RAID. The message was correct, the 2.6 kernel doesn't support the raid part of those SATA ports. Silicon Image do have 2.4 drivers on the Tyan site, but I don't think they were compiled for 64 bit, and i remember the last time I tried them, they were only capable of handling RAID 0. Don't know if they updated them to allow RAID 1 yet. You're better off using software RAID. (It's probably more efficient than the mock-hardware RAID handled by those controllers too)
Hello, Does anybody know if it is possible to have a software RAID 0 config under Linux with SATA drives that is also accesible from Win XP? What I would like to do is to configure 2 drives as software RAID 0 under Linux 64, using FAT32. Then configure those 2 same drives under Win XP, and also access them as RAID 0, obviously with no data loss. Is this possible? Thanks! _____________________________ Ricardo R Palma SYNOPSIS SA Tel. (+51 1) 275-7523, 275-4708 email: rrpalma@synopsis.ws www.synopsis.ws
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Hello,
Does anybody know if it is possible to have a software RAID 0 config under Linux with SATA drives that is also accesible from Win XP? What I would like to do is to configure 2 drives as software RAID 0 under Linux 64, using FAT32. Then configure those 2 same drives under Win XP, and also access them as RAID 0, obviously with no data loss.
Is this possible?
Thanks!
Ricardo, Theoretically you could partition each disk in half (or some other ratio), use RAID 0 on the first partition of each drive for Win XP and RAID 0 on the second partition of each drive for Linux. But Linux and Windows approach RAID differently. BUT, Win XP does not support software RAID (directly). Win XP does supports software RAID 0 using the BIOS level drivers that come with some SATA "RAID" controllers. But, alas, at least int he setups I have seen, the entire drive is taken up, not just one or more designated partitions. It is very frustrating trying to do software raid and share a drive between Linux and Windows - I spent a lot of time trying. The good thing about the Windows approach is that it appears you are doing hardware RAID, where the entire drive is "mirrored" (RAID 1) or striped (RAID 0). The good thing about the Linux approach is that its usually considerably faster than the Windows driver approach. The two best answers I know of are to either: 1) Spend the bucks on a true RAID contoller (about $300 US) that will let you partition as many "partitions"/volumes as you need, one for each OS; or 2) Buy four drives, two for each OS. With Fry's and others selling 80GB Western Digital drives for a net of $50 these days, thats not a bad way to go. Good luck - Richard
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