FC3 + SATA RAID

[mcwimpy at gmx.at]

>>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 at 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=ULwO0A442oKs512Q04X5i0UupP4SveI6dt2WJi7&cid=2&r=0.4358026
(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 at 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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