RAID + Serial ATA on A7N8X-E Deluxe

[Robin Laing]

Rodrigo Malara wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just bought a A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard and a pair of 80GB SATA
> hard drives in order to mirror them (RAID 1). 
> 
> In Windows 2000 it worked well (the operating system reports only one
> hard drive), but in Fedora Core 3 when I type fdisk -l it shows both
> disks and AFAIK it would not happen.
> 
> It seems that the 2.6 kernel is ignoring the RAID controller that is
> expected to give only one disk to the operating system. I've tried
> everything, including stripping (RAID 0), with no success. 
> The 2 disks are visible by the OS.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Rodrigo Malara
> PS: sorry about my poor english 
> 

Have the same board and use md for my RAID.  It works well.  Now if 
the board only supported more drives.


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Robin Laing