Silicon Image Motherboard RAID

[Smith, Albert]

You can try the generic megaraid utility. It has an ok front end and you
should be able to do most of what your looking for. If it doesn't you
can always use software RAID with the secondary drive on the other
controller. 

Albert Smith
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT
Genex Services
440 E. Swedesford Rd.
Wayne, PA 19087
albert.smith at genexservices.com
(610) 964-5154
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> karlp at ourldsfamily.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 1:10 PM
> To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Silicon Image Motherboard RAID
> 
> I have a new server with SATA drives with onboard RAID by 
> Silicon Image Inc. I've never heard of that one. The 
> motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X-E (part no. 90-M7A770-GOUAYOZ) 
> with a 3000+ AMD XP CPU.
> I've installed FC4 with no hitches whatsoever. Clean install 
> with everything recognized and installed correctly. That was 
> very nice.
> 
> Okay, where am I going with this... At work, I have an Intel 
> motherboard with onboard RAID, but it's by Adaptec, so I 
> downloaded asmbe_linux_1.21.002 which gives a very nice 
> front-end tool to manage the RAID array.
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a similar tool for the Silicon 
> Image Inc RAID?
> 
> I've searched Silicon's web pages with absolutely no luck. 
> Since the system was a father's day present from my son, I 
> didn't have much input on what he got. I'm not about to tell 
> him to get something different over this issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Karl
> 
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