Florin Andrei wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Florin Andrei wrote:
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I've two almost identical systems (slightly different CPUs) that use
SiI 3114 for SATA and RAID.
One of them was installed a while ago with Fedora Core 5 (kernel
2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp) and whoever installed it was able to turn on
hardware RAID.
This chip does not support hardware RAID. The capability simply isn't
there in the silicon.
http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html#sii
Wow! :-(
So that means that the FC5 system is not actually on RAID? Even though
it seems so? (using /dev/dm-* for filesystem volumes)
# lspci | grep -i sata
03:05.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114
[SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
# df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/dm-6 125931 2999 116432 3% /
/dev/dm-1 99 13 81 14% /boot
tmpfs 1012 0 1012 0% /dev/shm
/dev/dm-2 9917 151 9254 2% /tmp
/dev/dm-3 9917 237 9168 3% /var
# lsmod | grep ata
sata_sil 13897 2
libata 58321 1 sata_sil
scsi_mod 129641 3 sg,libata,sd_mod
# cat /etc/modprobe.conf | tail -n 1
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_sil
So in fact /dev/dm-* are just on one disk each (not RAID1), or what is
going on here?
The's dmraid providing /software/ RAID as noted in
http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html#dmraid
Jeff
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