walk away from those drivers..no..run away. That's fake raid. use
either md for linux software raid or get a 3ware or areca..<G>
ricardo oliveira wrote:
Hi folks:
I've contacted Supermicro Europe Support, and they were awesome! They
sent me the drivers for RHEL U3/U4 ... So I'll test them today... Hope
it works!
Ricardo
On 2/15/07, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 19:23 +0000, ricardo oliveira wrote:
> Hi:
>
> 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/Redhat/ , 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?
>
> I really need to install centos as an array... and as hardware RAID
> and not software RAID.
>
You have probably already seen all the other posts ... however I want to
make sure everybody understands...
The RAID that is built onto the motherboards on almost all these
chipsets _IS_NOT_HARDWARE_RAID_ ... any more than a win Modem is a real
modem.
The RAID really is just software raid _WITH_A_PROPRIETARY_DRIVER_ .
The proprietary nature of that driver makes it much less stable than
linux software raid.
So, as others have mentioned, buy a REAL hardware RAID card ... like
vmware ... or use software RAID.
Also, as others have mentioned, please search for "fake raid" or "fraid"
on google for more information.
Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
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