On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:30:49 -0500 "Peter Larsen" <plarsen@famlarsen.homelinux.com> wrote: :Samuel Flory wrote: :>> I now have an Acorp 6A815EPD MainBoard with a Promise 20265 Fasttrak :>> 100 embedded RAID. I have tried to get Redhat 8.0 and 8.1 beta to :>> install onto a RAID 0 partition (striped for speed) the installer :>> does not see the RAIDcard at all. I can use the (Alt-Ctrl + F2) : :[...] : :> 8.0 should at least see the invidual drives. : :Hopefully not?? :The purpose of hardware raid is to keep control of the physical word on the controller, and have the rest of the computer see and worry about the logical world the controller gives you. : :I've not done a lot of hardware raid on Linux, but on the few boxes I have used, all RH sees are the volumues we created in the raid-setup process - NOT the individual drives. I know utilities for Windows exist where you can query the status of the controller - which of course allows you to see a list of the physical world - but from the kernels perspective it only sees the the logical volumes. I am running a Promise Fasttrak100 IDE RAID controller. You need to get a Linux driver from the Promise web site -- the Red Hat supplied drivers will not work. In case you have a problem installing it, I found the tech support people at Promise to be very supportive. In addition, I will be happy to describe my experiences in greater detail, if it would be useful to you. As to Linux seeing the individual IDE drives, it will do so unless, and until, you null out the IDE ports which do not contain non-raid IDE drives. The instructions for doing so are included in the driver documentation. -- Chuck -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
