SATA Raid - SiI3112A

Deathmaker · n00b Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 35

Hi
I have a problem with my IDE-Raid ...
I can't get it to work ... I have an Asus K7N8X-E with SiI3112A SATA-Raid Controller ..
There is already an Raid-Set with 2 160GB HDs ... There are 2 partitions on it ...
I don't know how i get them to work ....
The kernel hardware support says : No raid array found
I had them working earlyer on another linux installation ...
Please help me ...

Here a snipet from the dmesg :

SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0
SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-116 0122, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdb: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4040B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: SAMSUNG SP1614C, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c01832a8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdg: ST3160023AS, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c01836fc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide2 at 0xf8808080-0xf8808087,0xf880808a on irq 18
ide3 at 0xf88080c0-0xf88080c7,0xf88080ca on irq 18
hde: attached ide-disk driver.
hde: host protected area => 1
hde: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63
hdg: attached ide-disk driver.
hdg: host protected area => 1
hdg: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63
hda: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(66)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdb: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < >
/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
Guestimating sector 312560384 for superblock
Guestimating sector 312560384 for superblock
driver for Silicon Image(tm) Medley(tm) hardware version 0.0.1: No raid array found

srs5694 · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject:

The Silicon Image controller you're using is not a hardware RAID device; it's an ordinary non-RAID controller with a few minimal RAID "hooks" to help out software RAID drivers. The device ships with drivers for Windows, but it's not a standard part of Linux. You need to add a special driver to get this to work. (Note that I've never used it, and I don't know if there are any Gentoo-specific shortcuts or caveats.) By all accounts, though, it's better to use Linux's own software RAID solutions with such devices, if possible. If you're trying to dual-boot and use RAID in both OSs, that may not be possible, though. If you just prepared the disk in another OS but want to use Linux exclusively, I recommend you just ditch the setup you've done, repartition the disks in Linux, and use Linux's software RAID.

Deathmaker · n00b Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 35

In Kernel configuration I set up IDE-Raid and Silicon Image / Medley Driver ...
i want to use the partition under win and linux ... the disks are full and i can't build a new arraay ...
before gentoo i had suse 9 and i could use the drive in linux (and win) ...