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yaki
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 Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject: Problem installing on Adaptec ASC-39320(B) U320 w/HostRAID |
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Hello,
I have this computer DELL PowerEdge sc1425 with Adaptec ASC-39320(B) U320 w/HostRAID and two 36GB SCSI disks. They are set up as RAID 1 (mirroing). Its not that gentoo doesn't see it, its all fine. The problem is that it sees both of them: /dev/sda & /dev/sdb (along with old Win partitions). If this is RAID, shouldn't I see one disk? I've never done installation on soft or hard RAID so I'm not entirely sure. Does anyone have any suggestions? BTW, it seems that this mashine has EM64T extension so I'll be putting in Gentoo amd64 OS.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanx! |
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cyrillic
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| Adaptec HostRAID is software RAID, and since you don't have any RAID drivers loaded yet, you see just the individual harddrives. |
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yaki
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:19 am Post subject: |
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| cyrillic wrote: | | Adaptec HostRAID is software RAID, and since you don't have any RAID drivers loaded yet, you see just the individual harddrives. |
Ohhh, I see! The guy kept telling me its a hardware RAID and I didn't bother to double check. But then, if its a soft. RAID, why does it have a controller to it? Or something. I'm getting lost with this SCSI stuff. |
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cyrillic
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| yaki wrote: | | But then, if its a soft. RAID, why does it have a controller to it? |
You still need something to plug the cables into, right ? 
What you have is a SCSI controller, and a RAID BIOS. What you are missing is the RAID driver.
As long as you don't need to dual-boot with Windows, you are better off using the kernel's own RAID driver instead of the proprietary one that Adaptec provides. |
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yaki
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| cyrillic wrote: | | yaki wrote: | | But then, if its a soft. RAID, why does it have a controller to it? |
You still need something to plug the cables into, right ?
What you have is a SCSI controller, and a RAID BIOS. What you are missing is the RAID driver.
As long as you don't need to dual-boot with Windows, you are better off using the kernel's own RAID driver instead of the proprietary one that Adaptec provides. |
Got it! Thank you very much for help - you've saved me lots of coffee  |
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