Thanks a lot! I hope the Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 will be better. I'll have to install a RAID5 with that controller. Any information about it? Francesco On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:30:43 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Do, den 24.03.2005 schrieb Francesco Del Citto um 12:21: > > > I have an Athlon64 3500+ with a motherboard Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe and > > two HD Maxtor 6B300S0 (Diamondmax 10 - 300Gb). > > I'd like to install Fedora Core 3 x86_64 with the hard disk connected > > to the SATA RAID Controller Silicon Image 3114 of the motherboard, > > setted up like Raid1 (mirrored). > > The problem is that, even if I set up the RAID drive by the controller > > utility, linux installer "sees" two separated disks. Software RAID > > seems to works fine. > > It is so called fake RAID controller chip, because the RAID logic > function is BIOS supported but done in software and not in hardware. Use > the controller simply as a SATA controller and setup a Linux software > RAID. > > > I tried the linux disk driver downloaded from Silicon Image, but it > > dosn't work, or I'm not able to let it works... > > Then this is a problem with that driver source. I wouldn't count on such > a driver as you always run into problem when a kernel security update is > required. > > > I know that this controller is used on lots of motherboard, so I hope > > that someone could help me! > > As said, use it as a SATA controller and use Linux's RAID capabilities > in software. In any way your CPU has to do the work. > > > Francesco > > Alexander > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 > legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC2smp > Serendipity 13:24:24 up 7 days, 11:20, load average: 0.42, 0.45, 0.42 > > >
