If you happen to be unfortunate enough to have also purchased a cheap ASUS K8N VM with the Nforce410 chipset in order to get the software RAID (or anything for that matter) to work you have to disable APIC . This means APIC modules must not be loaded. Joe Olstad, Solid Computing Corp Edmonton, Canada 780-710-FAST ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Monday, April 3, 2006 4:28 am Subject: Re: Softraid controllers and Linux > Jim Klimov wrote: > > Hello linux-raid, > > > > I have tried several cheap RAID controllers recently (namely, > > VIA VT6421, Intel 6300ESB and Adaptec/Marvell 885X6081). > > > > VIA one is a PCI card, the second two are built in a Supermicro > > motherboard (E7520/X6DHT-G). > > > > The intent was to let the BIOS of the controllers make a RAID1 > > mirror of two disks independently of an OS to make redundant > > multi-OS booting transparent. While DOS and Windows saw their > > mirrors as a singular block device, Linux (FC5) accessed the > > two drives separately on all adapters. > > You did not buy a RAID controller. > > http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html > > If you really want to use proprietary RAID on Linux, you may use > dmraid, > but using MD for software RAID is much more robust. > > Jeff > > > - > 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 > - 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
