Owen Townend wrote: > > > On 3/8/08, *Ivan Glushkov* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Mobo, which has an NVIDIA nForce4 sata > raid controller and I tried to install Debian with the testing > netinstall cd, but it does not recognize my RAID array. Any idea how to > do that? Googling I found this > (http://www.transtronics.com/reference/SATA-RAID-debian-for-2.6.html), > but it states that the debian installer should recognize raid arrays.. > should it? > > Cheers,
-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That's a nice link. The software raid will work perfectly under linux, but is it going to be visible under windows? Is there a windows software for that? > Hey, > A little bit of googling found this: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=178400 > It's one guy's experience with an nforce4 chipset mobo. FTA: > " Step 1.) Disable Raid Support in Bios and and other type of > "Software" Raid Controller. That nifty nforce 4 motherboard you have > DOES NOT have a HW Raid controller. You will find that if you use that > raid controller and try to get linux to play nice, you will fail > miserably! " > From this and a few other pages it looks like you may be able to > access the array using dmraid but not as a boot device and even if you > could, it doesn't perform better than a software md raid because the > 'hardware' raid the mobo uses actually uses the system cpu and memory > anyway. > If you're dual booting and already have windows installed on the array > then pursue the issue, otherwise it seems your time is better spent > relaxing with a software raid soution. > cheers, > Owen. -- ------------------------------------- Ivan Glushkov Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.desy.de/~glushkov phone: +49-40-8998-3293 fax: +49-40-8994-3094 Notkestrasse 85 22607 Hamburg Germany ------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
