Why not use software RAID ? You don't necessarily need the hardware RAID and as far as I know software RAID works just as fine as the hardware RAID.
Catalin Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Good afternoon list. > > I am trying now for 8 days to make nvidia RAID works on gentoo > systems; I pass trhought all stages, I had difficult make live cd > works, then after it works I have to use the hard way to make grub > install.... after all that I thought it was every thing cool and I > would be allowed to run my gentoo, I was wrong. > > I had tried genkernel and Hard way ( a script to genrate initrd ) on > kernel 2.6.16 and none of then work, always complaining that real_root > wasn´t there and I could run a shell and really there was just > /dev/mapper/control no raid device. So some wise guys said to me, > there is a bug on 2.6.16 that doesn´t work with RAID 0, so I emerged > 2.6.15-r1 and tried again both ways, genkernel and the other ...... > again none of them work, with a addin, my kernel panics at boot ! > > so were should I go now, just use windows .... because infortunilly > every single hardware fabricant just think of windows users...... I > can not erase my windows, and RAID on windows gives a real boost. So > what is left to me is keep trying make the louse nvidia fake raid work > on linux ...... > > I pray for a wise guy that had done this before !!!! HELP ME !!!!! I > think I had tried everything I know and some things that I didn´t know > either !!!! > > sorry for the large mail and the terrible english ..... but, could > anyone help ..... > > thanks ..... Allan > > PS. ( for more explanations on what happened on my system there is a > thread on the list, > subject: Help with nvidia fake raid. ) > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
