[rhn-users] RH ES4 & SuperMicro Serial ATA Raid

[Roger Weeks]

We're attempting to install RH ES4 on a SuperMicro 2U server.  The  
specific model of server is a 6024H-TR.  The motherboard has two  
different SATA RAID controllers onboard.

It's a little bit confusing, because the BIOS for both of the SATA  
RAID is an "Adaptec Embedded HostRAID v2.2-1.2005".

However, the motherboard documentation on SuperMicro's website  
indicates that one SATA RAID is a Marvell 88SX6081 controller, and  
the other is a 6300ESB controller.

We have set up two boot drives in RAID1 using the firmware from these  
controllers, and on boot the RH CD detects the drives using the  
libata ata_piix driver, but this driver doesn't recognize the RAID  
capabilities of the controllers and so the drives show up as two  
distinct /dev/sda and /dev/sdb drives.

Can anyone provide pointers on how to get a 2.6 kernel working with  
RAID 1 on either of these controllers?

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Roger J. Weeks
Systems & Network Administrator
Mendocino Community Network