[K12OSN] sil3114

Robert Arkiletian robark at telus.net
Sun Nov 21 17:49:48 UTC 2004


Ascension Tech wrote:

>Hiya,
>I just put our tyan s2882 server together and I can't seem to get the
>Silicon Image 3114  sata raid controller going.  I've installed the
>4.2 beta1 to one drive, then kudzu finds the controller.  I created an
>an array and coppied the data but when i boot it complains about there
>being double boot loaders.  There's a Raid_Utility folder on the
>driver disk with a file called Win_and_Linux_REV_110.exe.  I'm not
>really sure what to do with that.  Any solutions or thoughts or am I
>going to use SW raid?
>
>Thanks,
>Peter
>
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Chances are that the controller is already software raid. The driver 
that comes with it for linux is probably just using the cpu to run it in 
raid mode. Real hardware raid is expensive. I recommend using the raid 
support built into the linux kernel. It is of course also software raid 
but it's proven and fast. One recommendation though, check to see that 
the /boot part. must not be raided. I remember something like this. 
There are many "Raid how-to" for this using the kernel. But sata maybe a 
little harder to find. I imagine you will need 2.6 kernel though.




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