Drew Tomlinson wrote:
On 12/10/2005 1:17 PM Stroller wrote:
On Dec 10, 2005, at 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4
chipset.
There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the
controller built in to the motherboard.
...
I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see two
icons on the desktop for my drives. One for sda the other for sdb.
I can
not mount either. I assume this is because Knoppix is seeing each
drive
individually instead of the one logical striped drive it is.
I'm no expert on this, but I believe that many ATA "hardware" RAID
arrangements in fact just use their Windoze drivers to do software
RAID. I'd do some research via Googling the chipset &/or board's
model number if I were you.
I haven't found anything yet but then I haven't looked real hard.
However I suspect this does not rely on any Windows drivers as the
controller is managed long before Windows boots. Just after POST and
before the OS starts, a brief message showing the controller is
displayed. By pressing F10, I can manage my stripe. Much like I see
most SCSI cards.
Have a look at:
http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/
I bought an ABit motherboard a while ago with a SIL3114 "raid
controller". While it gives you an option at boot to manage the drives,
all this does is configure the drivers so the software can see them as a
raid set, i.e. it's not true hardware raid.
Shawn Haggett
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