On Friday 24 August 2001 6:22 pm, babu walad wrote:
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 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