[SLE] Problems with SuSe 9.3 installation in SATA Raid 1

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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 05:58:50 -0300 (ART)
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com

    Please someone help me!!!!!!!!!!!

    I want to install SuSe 9,3 professional edition in
one desktop computer with two SATA hard disks
connected in RAID 1 mode (security). Till now I can´t
install SuSe on that system.

    During the installation SuSe shows me a message
that says that SuSe don´t support his kind of RAID
functionality (it also says that in kernel 2,4x some
RAID chipset, like Promise, were supported but in
kernel 2,6x they are not supported at all).
    I read that I should create a diskette with some
modules (or something like that) in order my kernel
and SuSe installation system detects the two disks as
a RAID. I actually see in the partition section of
SuSe installation program the disks as independiently
units and not like a single one.

    The computer has an AMD 64 3200+ (core Winchester)
microprocessor, motherboard ASUS A8V Deluxe and two
SATA Western Digital hard disks (250GB each disk).

    The motherboard has two RAID controllers one made
by VIA and other made by Promise. The RAID is
connected to the Promise controller (Promise Fastrack
20378).
    The disk is actually partitioned in this way:
            Primary:
                        38 GB NTFS; WinXP 64 bits is
installed in this partition
            Extended:
                       38 GB NTFS; WinXP 32 bits is
installed in this partition
                       90 GB FAT32; Data

    The avaiable disk space is for SuSe (actually is
unpartitioned)

    I need no to lose the data that I have on the
three partitions that I have in my system (the other
system are working well with the RAID and I have
several GBs of data in the other partition)

    Please apologize me because my english is not
enough good as I want it to be!!!

    Gabriel from Argentina

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