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Installation Problems. Mandrake 9.2

  • 06-03-2004 4:34pm
    #1
    Dman_15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 792 ✭✭✭


    I have an ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe Mobo with 2x120gb hd in raid0 array. I cant get the Mandrake 9.2 installer to pick up the raid array.
    The installer offers to reformat the drives as two seperate 120gb.
    Any ideas to get round this?


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  • #2
    slartibardfast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭slartibardfast


    it's a sil3112a raid adapter on the asus? if so linux 2.4 doesn't have support for the 'software' hardware of your raid adapter. If you had a hardware hardware raid adapter(say a MegaRAID scsi thing), or a supported software hardware raid adapter(say a HPT, in 2.4.xx anywho) linux would correctly see the device as one whole disk.

    Look in to md software raid, it meets my needs quite well, it's damn fast also. The mandrake installer may allow you to setup an array from the installation, although your windows partitions probably would explode...

    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

    Some time in the future the 2.6 kernel will have support for 'software' hardware raids by building them with the same code as the md stuff (just different magic.)

    Good Luck,.


  • #3
    Dman_15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 792 ✭✭✭Dman_15


    thanks. the chip is a 3112. sounds like there is no way of doing it without screwing over all my data. :(


  • #4
    slartibardfast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭slartibardfast


    I personally just never setup the windows raid, I wonder can the 240gb partition be resized in windows with partition magic? then you could treat the end of the disks as normal. ..

    I'd try and find reports of it being done, however might screw with the superblock information of the 3112 as I don't know where that is kept on the disk.


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