SATA Raid - Linux


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Hi,

From my spec list below you can see that I am running a couple of raid arrays, one of which is 2x WD raptors on a silicon images SATA raid controller in RAID 0.

I have tried the following distro`s (in order)

Gentoo 1.4

Gentoo 2004.0

Mandrake 9.2

Redhat 9

For all of them i cannot get it to see the raid array, it simply see`s the 2 drives but says the partition tables are corrupt. When I manage to downlaod it (at work on monday) I want to try mandrake 10 , will this help ? i cant see why it will realy, as Gentoo 2004.0 has the latest kernel.

Any ideas / experiances doign this / advice / linkage.

I have of course done some googling, hasnt given me anything to work on though.

Thankyeeeee ppl

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I don't know about the Gentoo versions, but Mandrake 9.2 & RedHat 9 are a bit old (2.4 kernel).

Support for SATA is 'ok' in current 2.4 kernels, but much better in the 2.6 kernel (Mandrake 10, and new SuSE 9.1 - or is it 9.2?).

There are still some SATAs that are not supported, even in 2.6, but try the new SuSE (via FTP install), or Mandrake 10. See if they work...

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The SATA itself seems to work, mandrake 9.2 detects it and sees the drives, and gentoo 2004.0 seems to see the drives ok, its just that it sees the 2 drives seperatley instead of as a raid 0 array, possibly its more specificalt a raid issue than a sata issue.

Older distro`s like for example mandrake 9.0 dont have sata support so they dont see the drives at all.

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Does anyone know the chipset used in his box? And if it is supported in the kernel?

If we can get a chipset, we can probably go to google.com/linux to look for support & potential issues.

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