On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 peter.greis@xxxxxxx wrote: > Greetings, > > Still attempting to get a new system built.... which raises a question: > My mobo has "bios" support for the nVidia nForce3 250Gb and SI 3114. In > the case of linux, is this doing anything for me ? Do I just ignore it ? > At present (80GB mirror), the two SATA drives show up as ide3 and ide4. I did an install on a server which had a plug-in PCI card with a 2-port SI 3112 controller on it with a SATA drives connected. (Is the 311 a 4-port version of the 3112, I wonder?) The BIOS was no help at all, but I was able to use the BIOS (on the card) to turn off the on-board mirror function. I had to do the install to another drive connected to the on-board standard IDE controller, then put a new kernel on which supports the SI 3112. (2.4.27 in this case) after that, they appeared as hde and hdg (ide3 and 4 like yours, I guess) I used Linux s/w RAID1 on them once I had a kernel and persuaded the BIOS to boot from them and remove the ordinary IDE drive. Bit dissapointed with the performance - I could only get ~40MB/sec out of each drive when I'd expect ~50-55MB/sec out of an ordinary IDE drive these days. MAybe it's still early days for the driver though. I haven't spent much time looking into the SATA stuff yet - but it seems theres 2 camps - one which makes the drives look like IDE drives and one which makes the look like SCSI.. I did an install on a Dell last week which I patched in addditional drivers which made the on-board controllers suddenly switch from a generic IDE interface to SCSI... > Also, does anyone know what Yast2 (with SuSE 9.1, kernel 2.6.4) is doing > under the hood during the setup ? Are we really running the md tools or > not ? Ideas ? Can't help there I'm afraid - I'm Debian only and haven't even looked at 2.6 yet... Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
