[clug] Serial ATA on Tyan Tiger i7320R

[Stephen Hodgman]

Thanks Steve.  I was starting to suspect we had been sold a pup.  
Confusing thing is, I cannot find any reference to the Adaptec model 
AIC-8110 as to what it actually is.  Probably soem OEM chip.  I assume 
fakeraid.
I will be speaking to the supplier.  I was assured it was hardware 
RAID.  Life is a learning process.

So, it seems that software RAID is the only real choice with this 
system.  Anyone able to give me suggestions as to whether this is a 
sensible option?  The system will mainly be serving pages, not updating 
databases etc.
does the linux software raid support hot swap?  this hardware claims to 
but not sure what happens if the raid is not enabled.  It will be 
running Debian Sarge 2.6 kernel.

Thanks,
  

Stephen Rothwell wrote:

>Hi Steve,
>
>On Mon, 30 May 2005 18:35:48 +1000 Stephen Hodgman <steve at namsys.com.au> wrote:
>  
>
>>We have a new 1U server unit here and I would like to install Debian 
>>(sarge) onto it.  the board has Adaptec hardware RAID on the SATA drives 
>>(RAID-1) and I would like to use that.
>>
>>I am using the latest netinstall of Sarge.
>>A 2.4 installation does not find the SATA drives.  Not good.
>>A 2.6 kernel install sees two SCSI drives rather than one (i.e. it is 
>>ignoring the hidden hardware mirroring).
>>SATA RAID is enabled in the BIOA and  the BIOS loads and reports 1 
>>logical unit.  However, I suspect that linux is ignoring that....
>>
>>Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can get the hardware RAID to work?
>>I dont really want to use software RAID.
>>    
>>
>
>See http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html
>
>  
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