View Single Post

   
  #2 (permalink)  
Old 01-18-2008, 09:07 AM
Markku Kolkka
 
Posts: n/a
Default Re: Hardware SATA RAID -- FC4 installation

Carlos Moreno wrote:
> The MB is a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI -- a socket 939 with
> nvidia nForce4 chipset. It comes with onboard nVidia
> SATA RAID. Right after the BIOS setup, I enter the RAID
> setup, and can create my array (RAID-0) of two drives.
>
> But then, when I enter the installation program, the
> thing doesn't see the array -- it sees the two drives
> as if they were simply connected to non-RAID ports.


Right, that's exactly what you have in your system. You don't have a
hardware RAID controller:
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html

> Is there a way around this?


Forget the fake-RAID setup in BIOS and setup software RAID in the FC4
installer:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora...isk-druid.html

--
Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka@iki.fi

Reply With Quote