Quite odd, my AMD64 asus mobos work just fine. Of course I have been avoiding all NForce chipsets for years. Maybe you should set the BIOS so that the discs are presented as AHCI devices? On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid- >> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht >> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 7:19 PM >> To: Kristleifur Dašason >> Cc: Linux-RAID >> Subject: Re: 3 disk RAID1? >> >> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Kristleifur Dašason >> <kristleifur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> <SNIP> >> >> >> >> When in doubt, read the manual two or three more times. >> >> >> >> This might also help you: http://wiki.tldp.org/LVM-on-RAID I wrote >> >> some background comparison sections when I made that... >> > >> > Good advice. >> > >> > The contents of the manual didn't really stick for me until I'd >> > actually *done* the tasks I was trying to figure out. The beautiful >> > and classic Catch-22 of learning new things. So I somewhat >> > empathically suggest you obtain a virtual machine program and start up >> > a few disposable virtual machines. (VirtualBox is pretty good and also >> > free.) Try creating some RAID's on VM's and getting them to boot, try >> > failing a device and readding it, etc. >> > >> > And keep the manual in a window next to the virtual machine's window :) >> > >> > -- Kristleifur >> > >> >> Exactly what I'm working on this afternoon. I've not created many VM's >> from scratch so there's a learning curve there, but potentially making >> the hard drives virtual in the new VM setup and then applying RAID to >> them seems like a good way to practice. >> >> Additionally I'm going to purchase maybe 3 or 4 drives and then see >> about using the other SATA ports on my desktop motherboard to create >> additional storage that I can get some real performance numbers on. > > Your mileage may definitely vary, but neither of the servers on > which I run mdadm have motherboards which allow mdadm to recognize the > drives. For both of them, only drives 0 and 1 are properly recognized by > Linux. I had to purchase SATA controllers for both. Both are Asus AMD-64 > motherboards. > > -- > 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
