FC3 + SATA RAID

[Si Jones]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 13:45, Markus Nicolussi wrote:
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>>Hello everybody!
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>>I'm waiting for a Fedora Release which supports my SATA RAID set. I'm
>>wondering if FC3 is what i'm waiting for...
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>>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).
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>yep you can create the software raid layout in the bios
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>>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 (
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>actually to the OS it looks like 2 individual disks which have a
>software raid layout on it.
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>dmraid will be the linux side to drive these software raid devices.
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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