Re: Installing to HPT370 RAID0?

[Helge Lenz <h.lenz@xxxxxx>]

doug wrote:

> Greetings. 
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> I'm wondering if it is possible to install Linux (RH71 preferably) to 
> a RAID 0 set from my on-board HPT370 controller.  Mainboard is Abit 
> TH7-RAID, currently with WinME on primary partition of the stripe 
> set.   New computer, just got around to installing Linux, realized 
> that problems exist with the HPT370 RAID and standard installer CDs.
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> Any hope, or do I need to delete the raid set and start fresh?  Or, is 
> it easier to add a hard drive to standard IDE0 channel and install to 
> that?
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> Many thanks.  Hope this wasn't an oft-repeated question.  Looked 
> through archives and didn't see much.
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> Doug Apel
Hi Doug,
I tried it for some time, but I could not install it. The problem is not 
the driver, you can copy a working kernel to the bootdisc and start the 
installation, but the ataraid-device /dev/ataraid/dXpY will not be 
recognized by the installation program. There is no posibility (as far 
as I know) to name the partition where you want to install linux. What 
you could do: install linux to a additional drive (2GB should be 
enough), compile a kernel with the ataraid driver and copy all data to 
the raid-array. Booting with grub is no problem. I did this procedure 
with a test array and I will do this with my working system, as soon as 
the driver recognize the partition table correctly.

greetings Helge.