Johnny Hughes spake the following on 2/15/2007 1:09 AM:
> 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.
I'm sure you meant 3ware here. One of those days! ;-)
>
> Also, as others have mentioned, please search for "fake raid" or "fraid"
> on google for more information.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
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