Installing FC3 with Controller SATA Raid Silicon Image 3114

[Francesco Del Citto]

Thanks a lot!
I hope the Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 will be better. I'll have to
install a RAID5 with that controller. Any information about it?
Francesco

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:30:43 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> Am Do, den 24.03.2005 schrieb Francesco Del Citto um 12:21:
> 
> > I have an Athlon64 3500+ with a motherboard Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe and
> > two HD Maxtor 6B300S0 (Diamondmax 10 - 300Gb).
> > I'd like to install Fedora Core 3 x86_64 with the hard disk connected
> > to the SATA RAID Controller Silicon Image 3114 of the motherboard,
> > setted up like Raid1 (mirrored).
> > The problem is that, even if I set up the RAID drive by the controller
> > utility, linux installer "sees" two separated disks. Software RAID
> > seems to works fine.
> 
> It is so called fake RAID controller chip, because the RAID logic
> function is BIOS supported but done in software and not in hardware. Use
> the controller simply as a SATA controller and setup a Linux software
> RAID.
> 
> > I tried the linux disk driver downloaded from Silicon Image, but it
> > dosn't work, or I'm not able to let it works...
> 
> Then this is a problem with that driver source. I wouldn't count on such
> a driver as you always run into problem when a kernel security update is
> required.
> 
> > I know that this controller is used on lots of motherboard, so I hope
> > that someone could help me!
> 
> As said, use it as a SATA controller and use Linux's RAID capabilities
> in software. In any way your CPU has to do the work.
> 
> > Francesco
> 
> Alexander
> 
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