CentOS - Feb 2007 - asrock 775 dual-vsta mb and linux with sata raid

Hello,

I have the subject mentioned mb and I am trying to install centos 4.4 with
sata raid enabled, but linux is not seeing the drives?
I tried to load via sata raid driver, no luck there.
I guess I could try legacy mode in the bios, but I was hoping there is
another way around to load linux with the raid?

Thanks....

Hello,

I don't know the board, but I know Asrock. I'm almost absolutely sure
this is fakeraid. It won't work well with linux. The Hostadapter has
only limited RAID-features. Just enough to get the os running to the
point where it loads a specialized driver that does the actual raid-
stuff.
I'd suggest you disable RAID on the board and use CentOS' software RAID.

Regards,
Andreas Rogge

Am Samstag, den 10.02.2007, 02:40 -0500 schrieb Sam
Giraffe:
> Hello,
> 
> I have the subject mentioned mb and I am trying to install centos 4.4 with
> sata raid enabled, but linux is not seeing the drives?
> I tried to load via sata raid driver, no luck there.
> I guess I could try legacy mode in the bios, but I was hoping there is
> another way around to load linux with the raid?
> 
> Thanks....
> 
> 
> 
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Thanks, I had disabled RAID, but the installer is still not recognizing the
250GB SATA drives...do I have to load any particular driver?


-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
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Of Andreas Rogge
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 6:07 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] asrock 775 dual-vsta mb and linux with sata raid

Hello,

I don't know the board, but I know Asrock. I'm almost absolutely sure
this
is fakeraid. It won't work well with linux. The Hostadapter has only limited
RAID-features. Just enough to get the os running to the point where it loads
a specialized driver that does the actual raid- stuff.
I'd suggest you disable RAID on the board and use CentOS' software RAID.

Regards,
Andreas Rogge

Am Samstag, den 10.02.2007, 02:40 -0500 schrieb Sam
Giraffe:
> Hello,
> 
> I have the subject mentioned mb and I am trying to install centos 4.4 
> with sata raid enabled, but linux is not seeing the drives?
> I tried to load via sata raid driver, no luck there.
> I guess I could try legacy mode in the bios, but I was hoping there is 
> another way around to load linux with the raid?
> 
> Thanks....
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>

run it in sata mode but turn the bios raid off.  It's fake raid(aka 
software raid done through a proprietary driver).  use the Linux built 
in raid tools in your distro to setup raid..don't use any bios FRAID.

Sam Giraffe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have the subject mentioned mb and I am trying to install centos 4.4 with
> sata raid enabled, but linux is not seeing the drives?
> I tried to load via sata raid driver, no luck there.
> I guess I could try legacy mode in the bios, but I was hoping there is
> another way around to load linux with the raid?
> 
> Thanks....
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
> 
> .
> 
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