Re: Motherboard with built-in RAID capabilities
- From: AZ Nomad <aznomad.2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:04:01 -0000
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:34:01 GMT, Otavio Exel <oexel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello All,
We have some boxes with the Asus P4S800DX here at the office;
All have 2 big sata HDs and we intend to run them mirrored;
This message concerns the built-in RAID capabilities of this
motherboard;
Some of them are running Win XP and some are running Linux;
Installing Win XP was very simple (or so I've been told (because I
didn't do it)):
- setup.exe asks if you would like to use additional drivers;
- you feed it the CD with the appropriate driver
- setup.exe now "sees" just one big HD (which is being mirrorred
by the motherboard itself)
- installation resumes normally
Installing Linux OTOH was a nightmare: Linux didn't recognize the
MD/RAID capabilities of the motherboard so we had to use software-raid
with mdadm and it proved to be a PITA!
Isn't there an equivalent driver to use with Linux so that the MD/RAIDYes. There's a dodmraid kernel option or something like that.
stuff happens "behind the scenes" as it is the case with Win XP?
Do a google search for "linux bios raid" and/or "linux motherboard raid"
Keep in mind that you don't have raid on your motherboard. What you have is
a page of settings and a software driver that simulates raid.
When you use the dodmraid option, you're using linux software raid to read
that settings page.
.
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