FC on ASUS SLI Deluxe for AMD64 X2

[Boris Devouge]

Mcguffey, David C wrote:
> Just finished building a dual boot workstation using the ASUS SLI Deluxe, an
> AMD64 X2 4200, 4 GB of RAM, two 250 GB SATA in RAID 0 using the onboard
> Nvida raid contoller, and an ATI Radeon X850 XT PCI-E video card.
> 
> Based on prior guidance to install Windows first on a dual-boot system, Win
> XP 64 bit is installed and running A-OK on a 250 GB partition.
> 
> Next step is to install FC4 or FC5 (preferably FC5) on the remaining 250 GB
> of unpartitioned space.
> 
> Anything I need to be aware of before I start this process?  Win XP 64
> required a special Nvida RAID driver as part of the install process.  Will
> FC4/5 recognize the existing Nvida stripe RAID, or will I have to do
> something special during the install?
> 
> Dave McGuffey
> Principal Information Assurance Engineer / ISSE
> SAIC IISBU, Columbia, MD
> 

As far as I am aware, the nvidia sata raid is one of those false 
hardware raid ( really a software raid ) and it does require a special 
driver ( windows only ) to pick up the logical volume information 
defined on the array.

More information is available there: 
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#nvidia

On FC/RHEL, the system will see 2 separate drives instead of the raid 0 
you defined using the raid bios utility. So you can use software raid 
but it will hose your window installation.

Hope this helps.

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