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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:34 pm    Post subject: Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller Reply with quote

Hello guys

I am trying to setup a linux setup on a raid configuraiton using two Western Digital 500GB disks (WDC WD5000AAKS)

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root@ubuntu:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82X38/X48 Express DRAM Controller
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82X38/X48 Express Host-Primary PCI Express Bridge
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82X38/X48 Express Host-Secondary PCI Express Bridge
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 1700 (rev a1)
05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70)


I have created the raid array using the intel BIOS... (RAID1) The strange things was, that there was no progress bar or some time lag which showed that the raid array is getting build...

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root@ubuntu:~# for drive in {a,b,c,d,e,f} ; do fdisk -l /dev/sd$drive ; done

Disk /dev/sde: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sde doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdf: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdf doesn't contain a valid partition table


Isn't it somewhat strange, that the kernel sees both harddisk and not the raid array, represented as e.g. sde? (sda to sdd are cardreaders)

so any hints on this?
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:07 am    Post subject: Re: Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller Reply with quote

consider using Linux Software RAID instead as it's more cross-compatible with other hardware and Linux Distros. If you want to use BIOS Software RAID A.K.A Fake RAID you need to boot the livecd with dodmraid option or whatever it's called.
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