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I have an issue I can't find a resolution for
anywhere. Plowed through tons of pages looking for an answer but can't find
anything.
I have an Intel based MB that has a Matrix Storage
Manager SATA RAID controller. We use our own distro based on 2.6.16.x kernels
right now and I need to be able to use this controller in hardware RAID. It
seems to need the i2c modules and dm set but also loads (wants) ahci. Which I
guess it what makes the OS see the two separate physical drives. The chipset
appears to be Intel ICH7R.
I tried installing Fedora Core 5 on the machine and
while it sets everything up fine, of course, it is still seeing the individual
drives (ie; /dev/sda and /dev/sdb) seperately. They do become a LV and work just
fine. I don't want or expect to see this though. I expected to see the array of
two SATA drives as a single unit melded together by the controller bios.
Is there something I'm missing regarding how this
is supposed to function or perhaps there is a step I have omitted? I can build
the LVM components and make it work but I wonder why I can't get the OS to see
the drives as a single logical entity and install on _that_ entity.
If there is a way this can be done please, I am out
of ideas and getting pretty frustrated. Of course the virus (windows) sees the
logical single drive after booting.
Regards,
--p
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