On Sunday 02 November 2003 07:55 pm, Evaristo Ferrari wrote: > Hi > I'm tring to install RC1 on a single hd connected with Ite ata 133 raid > controler of my GA-7N400 Pro2 mb and it can't see any disk. > I got iteraid.o driver by Gigabyte web site but if I try "expert" mode, > installation ask me for non dos > disk driver. I have looking for raid.image or other.image for making > boot floppy but have found none. > Is there a solution?
Not for what you are trying to do. The RAID controller that is on your motherboard supports 0,1, and 0+1 RAID levels. However, in order to do any of these, you need two identically sized disk drives connected to the RAID controller. You can NOT do RAID with only a single hard drive. The whole point is to use multiple drives to provide some level of backup, failover modes. You can use your RAID controller as an additional IDE controller for a single hard drive but that is not the same thing as trying to create RAID striping on a single hard drive. In order to install on the RAID controller (using it as a normal IDE controller) using a single hard drive, boot the Mandrake Linux CD as you normally would and hit the function key to bypass the automatic installer. On the command line, you would enter "linux ide=reverse" along with whatever other parameters you need, like noapic, acpi=off, etc. It might look like "linux noapic acpi=off ide=reverse" and boot it up. You should then get into the normal installer and be able to install on your single hard drive. You should insure that you always boot up with ide=reverse no matter what version of the kernel you boot up with. That should work for you, it does for me and I am using a HPT374 RAID controller built onto my SOYO motherboard. I don't think that there is any solution that will allow you to boot from a RAID array using Linux. No matter how you do it, you will need to create a boot image that includes a RAID driver and will have to boot from that which means that the RAID drives are not available until the kernel loads in memory. It must be loaded from somewhere other than the RAID drives by definition. Perhaps a boot floppy, if there is one big enough, or a CD that you create especially for that purpose. You might also be able to do that from a network drive, not sure. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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