FC3 + SATA RAID

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Thu Jul 29 12:26:17 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 13:45, Markus Nicolussi wrote:
> Hello everybody!
> 
> 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_. That means: I have a config tool in the
> BIOS and there i can merge my 2 SATA Disks to one big (striped RAID 0).

yep you can create the software raid layout in the bios

> After doing this, for the OS it looks as if i have one big, fast disk. With
> the drivers SiI supports for WinXP and RH9 (

actually to the OS it looks like 2 individual disks which have a
software raid layout on it.

dmraid will be the linux side to drive these software raid devices.

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