Re: RHEL+ SATA (was: FC3 + SATA RAID)
Hello.
I have a problem with the SATA with RHEL3.
The two or three 64 bit motherboards I have seen all have SATA.
The motherboard manufacturers have little or no support for Linux and say that
because Linux is so fast changing that its too hard for them to support (ASUS
support).
If 2.6 kernel has support for ASATA when will 2.6 appear in RHEL 3?
Thanks
James Harrison
--- mcwimpy(a)gmx.at wrote:
>>On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 13:45, Markus Nicolussi wrote:
>> I'm waiting for a Fedora Release which supports my SATA RAID set. I'm
>> wondering if FC3 is what i'm waiting for...
>>
>> I have the ASUS A7N8Deluxe with the Silicon Image Sil 3112A-Controller
>> with and RAID 0/1-support in the _BIOS_...
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:24, Si Jones <si(a)bananas.hopto.org> worte:
> FC2 has had support in it for the Sil3112 under software raid or just
> normal.
>
> As far as i remember the Sil3112 is not hardware raid so to the driver
> even with the bios layed out as raid it will not see a raid set...
>
> Simon
>
Yeah! your right. Since FC1 i try every (test) release. my last try was
FC3T1 and it didn't work. I can see my harddrives even with FC1. but only
single, not together as one like with the SiI drivers.
Silicon Image linux driver (sorry i supported a dead link last
time):
http://12.24.47.40/display/2/index.asp?c=12&cpc=ULwO0A442oKs512Q04X5i...
(you have to go to the left frame and choose: Serial ATA ->
controllers ->
SiI3112/3112A -> SiI3112A: Linux SATA Drivers)
this driver was made for RH9. the driver wasn't updated fo over a year! it's
a driver-floppy-disk which anaconda uses to load the driver so that it can
see the medley array. afterwards it can install on it and builds a initrd
with the driver in it so that i can boot from medley.
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:26, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com> wrote
>
> dmraid will be the linux side to drive these software raid devices.
>
>
yes i know.
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0407.0/0986.html sais that
dmraid supports the so called Silicon Image Medley RAID.
but the documentation/readme to this software only tells me, how to install
dmraid on a already running system. but i can't install a fedora core
because it doesn't see the Medley array for which it seems to need dmraid -
wich only can be installed on a allready running fedora which...
i don't now what was first, the chicken or the egg...
maybe there is a way by temporarly installing fedora on a normal IDE drive
and then linking the medely array into the system. and then somehow
installing fedora on my raid array. but i don't know how and couldn't find
something in the net.
so the question ist: Whenn will Anaconda use dmraid, so that i can upgrade
my RH9 with the Fedora install CDs?
ciao, nico.
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