On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 09:28 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > 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! ;-) vmware ... 3ware ... ARGH :( You are obviously quite correct ... thanks :P
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