Re: HPT372 Motherboard RAID 1

From: Michael Buchenrieder (mibu_at_scrum.muc.de)
Date: 02/01/04 

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:37:23 GMT

Felix Miata <UgaddaBkidding.due2UCE@dev.nul> writes:

>Are there any distros that support installing on and booting from HPT372
>motherboard RAID 1 on which the RAID is already partitioned for
>multiboot and on which W2K is already installed to boot from and use the
>RAID 1? Google hasn't found me any.

[...]

I doubt that this works at all. The HPT372 chipset is NOT a HW RAID
controller, although the description could make you think it was.
Fact is, all the Promise chipsets do nothing but simply offer
a BIOS setup for creating arrays - but to be able to use them, you
have to install the prorietary drivers they deliver with the motherboard.

There is a Linux driver for the 372 chipset; you could try loading that
first, prior to installing your distribution of choice. I'm sure that
SuSE 9.x has support for this chipset; Mandrake should as well.
You'll simply have to load that first, then setup the partitions on
the /dev/ataraid* devices. However, whether or not this will
keep your existing W2K partitioning is hard to tell; especially
if taking into account your previous failed installation attempts.

Michael 

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