Asus A7N8X Deluxe and RAID 1 on Fedora Core 1?

From: BrianP (BrianP_at_neverumindwhere.com)
Date: 06/08/04

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    Hi,

    I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe and I have 2 Raptor 74 SATA drives connected
    to the motherboard. I hit Control-S at boot time and setup a RAID 1
    using both drives. 72 GB is much more than enough for a web/database
    server and redudnancy is what I want.

    When I boot from the Redhat Fedora disk 1 and use Disk Druid to manually
    partition the RAID, it doesn't see a hardware RAID, but rather 2
    separate hard drives, /dev/hde and /dev/hdg. I thought the motherboard
    was supposed to gang both drives together and present the pair to the
    operating system as a single drive.

    When I try to make a software RAID, it uses all 72 GB as the root
    partition and doesn't give the ability to use only part of it. It then
    complains that there is no swap partition.

    Is there much difference between a software and a hardware RAID with
    SATA drives on a Nvidia Nforce chip set and a 2400+ AMD CPU? I would
    rather have the RAID handled in hardware on the motherboard and leave
    the CPU out of it. I did exactly the same thing with 2 other Raports on
    windoze using the same mother board and it saw only one drive.

    Has anybody successfully setup a hardware RAID1 on this motherboard in
    Fedora Linux Core 1?

    Thank you,

        Brian

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