[opensuse] GA-7N400S - nVidia HW Raid - How to Setup on RAID 0 on 10.3?

Listmates, To prepare for the next year, I am upgrading a server with a pair of 250G SATA drives to be run in RAID 0. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7N400S that has an nVIDIA nForce4-4X SATA Raid controller onboard. The only manual supplied is for windows. After I create the RAID array in the BIOS what will I need to do to install a fresh copy of 10.3 on the system? Will I need to do anything special during the setup or with yast be able to see and use the RAID array? Has anyone else been successful with this setup? Please let me know you thoughts. Will the hardware raid even work with 10.3? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Listmates,
To prepare for the next year, I am upgrading a server with a pair of 250G SATA drives to be run in RAID 0. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7N400S that has an nVIDIA nForce4-4X SATA Raid controller onboard. The only manual supplied is for windows.
After I create the RAID array in the BIOS what will I need to do to install a fresh copy of 10.3 on the system? Will I need to do anything special during the setup or with yast be able to see and use the RAID array? Has anyone else been successful with this setup? Please let me know you thoughts. Will the hardware raid even work with 10.3?
Looks like you might be better off turning the onboard controller off and getting a 3Ware controller instead. and if you get one more drive you'll be able to do raid 5 and have more drive space available. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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