<DIV>Hi,</DIV>
<DIV>I got a question? I have a MSI motherboard w/raid via serial ide drives. I'm running Win 2000 Server. If I where to dual boot this system with Red Hat. I'm I right from what I understand that Linux won't work? </DIV>
<DIV>Also, I took a look at Red Hat to see if it supports my board and there seems to be some comments say that Red Hat is ok with it and then maybe not? The board is an MSI 845PE Max2 So any advice out there?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks, TheCactusKid<BR><BR><B><I>Joseph Lukasiewicz <jlukasiewicz@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV>The Alpha I was running had a similar issue. RH did not support the RAID card as a boot device so I could not "boot" from the array. I was forced to install a "boot" drive and then the supporting driver for the hardware...a little more exposed than I wanted since the boot drive is not mirrored or raid - but it is essentially only in use at boot time, all the system info/programs and swapspace is on the raid.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Joe</DIV>
<DIV><BR><B><I>Justin Bennett <justin.bennett@dynabrade.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">US-itek is great, got lots of stuff cheap, I bought an IDE raid card <BR>from them, about the same price. We buy SCSI raid cards all the time, in <BR>the scsi bios you setup what you want in the raid array and it apears as <BR>one drive to the OS. Using the IDE card I got, It had drivers (non <BR>linux) I set it up in the "bios" on the card, and booted to RedHat 2.1ES <BR>install, It showed up as another IDE controller and I saw both drives. <BR>It didn't show the raid array. I assume this may be because there wasn't <BR>a linux driver for this raid card. It's possible the driver does the <BR>RAID, and the card is just a couple of IDE channels. Who knows. I <BR>wouldn't reccomend it. I wound up just doing software raid with 2 IDE <BR>drives. I have several machines doing software raid with IDE drives, it <BR>works out ok. I didn't look into getting a driver for it, I just wen!
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<BR>software.<BR><BR>Justin<BR><BR><BR>Justin Bennett<BR>Network Administrator<BR>RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)<BR>Dynabrade, Inc.<BR>8989 Sheridan Dr.<BR>Clarence, NY 14031<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>JJ Neff wrote:<BR><BR>>Anyone using these. US ITEK has a ATA100 RAID controller for under 50 I think<BR>>(or thereabouts) and as long as RAID 0-1 or 0/1 are configurable in BIOS and<BR>>dont require Windows software it shoudl work in Linux.<BR>><BR>>ANyone try one . sound like I could get some more life out of my pile of<BR>>older 4/6/9 GB drives...<BR>><BR>>JJN<BR>><BR>>__________________________________<BR>>Do you Yahoo!?<BR>>New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing.<BR>>http://photos.yahoo.com/<BR>> <BR>></BLOCKQUOTE>
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