Fedora 8 x86-64 and NVRAID

Raymond C. Rodgers rh at bbnk.dhs.org
Fri Feb 22 18:41:28 UTC 2008


Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> Dnia 22-02-2008, pią o godzinie 11:56 +1000, Brian Chadwick pisze:
>   
>> Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
>>     
>>> A couple months ago, I reinstalled Windows XP Pro and Fedora 8 on
>>>       
>> my 
>>     
>>> machine which has the Asus M2NBP-VM CSM motherboard featuring
>>>       
>> NVidia's 
>>     
>>> NForce 430B chipset. I have a primary boot drive that is not a part
>>>       
>> of 
>>     
>>> the raid but which boots both WinXP and Fedora just fine, and I have
>>>       
>> a 
>>     
>>> RAID 1 set up with two 100 GB drives, formatted with NTFS.
>>> Raymond
>>>
>>>       
>> its probably BIOS assisted RAID, aka fakeRAID ... Fedora doesnt support it.
>>
>>     
>
>   I would rather say it is supported:
>
> % dmraid -l | grep nvidia
> nvidia  : NVidia RAID (S,0,1,10,5)
>
>  I even remember FC5 or FC6 had dmraid in installer and allowed install
> into such fakeraid.
>
>  Raymond, I suggest you look into man "dmraid". 
>
>
>   
Thanks, I'll take a look this afternoon when I'm at the computer again, 
and I'll let you and everyone else know the results.
Raymond




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