> I've tried to install centos 4.3 in a raid array, setuped on
> bios as mode "Adaptec". The chip is ICH7R but centos always
> sees 2 drives instead of the array that I create. I've
> contacted Supermicro support and they gave me this link
> ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SATA/Adaptec_ICH7R/Linux/Redha
t/ , but the disk drivers I tried to use with centos 4.3 did not work,
saying that the disk did not containt appropriate drivers for the
hardware.
> Have anyone here had similar problems? does centos 4.4 solves this
issue?
Yep, I have ran into similar probs with adp94xx drivers from
IBM/Adaptec. Quite a pain in the ass. The drivers endedup working, but
took some trickery. I ended up getting the installer going, then
switching to the second virtual terminal, mounting the .img disk, then
manually insmod'ing the the kernel module. *Then* it actually found the
disks, and the install could continue.
> I really need to install centos as an array... and as hardware RAID
and not software RAID.
Lots of other people have covered the hardware-vs-software/fakeRAID
stuff. Linux software RAID works great. Hotswap works well too if you
are concerned about that.
Mike
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