Unfortunately the "Raid controller " that the hardware says that
comes with, uses a software driver in order to perform the raid
functions. So to make the long story short just use the OS soft raid
functionality
Have fun.
Good day
Nikos
On 5/7/05, Jonathan <j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> List:
>
> Good morning. I'm hoping someone is still up who can lend me an ear.
> I'm sitting on the floor of Mae West surrounded by disassembled servers,
> frustrated out of my mind. Same as last weekend. ;-)
>
> Actually, I'm having a weird issue. I have a Dell 420SC in front of
> me. It's a fine machine, brand new. p4 2.8 800Mhz bus, 1GB DDR2
> (2x512) and dual 80GB drives. I've used the onboard raid to build a
> raid-0+1 (mirror) raid array. The problem is, it's telling me as soon
> as I load up the setup for CentOS 4 that no drives are available and
> that I should load up some.
>
> Odd.
>
> I have three machines running CentOS 4 over here with the identical
> specs, and identical settings. One even has the exact same
> configuration, including raid setup, and it's running happily. But it
> was installed from and older CentOS 4 disk (got scratched). I've got
> about 12 more to do tonight. How is it possible that the same machine
> with concurrent serial numbers won't load RAID? Is there some trick?
>
> I'm really at a loss on this one. I'm on the 14th floor. Now if I
> could get one of these windows to open, I think I have a very easy
> solution...
>
> Anyone have any experience with this? Is there some trick to getting
> these 420SC's to load CentOS?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jonathan
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