On Sunday 05 Dec 2004 03:41, care free wrote: did a search on the mdk hardware database for both ide raid and the gigabyte m/board but no joy. On the gigabyte site their are drivers for mdk 9 & rh 8 to 9.
> Check to see if the raid controller is supported in Mandrake 10.1. I > bought an off board promise ide raid and did not do a deep research on it > early this year. I just checked promise website and it said that the card > is supported. After buying the card, I tried to install mandrake 9.2. It > did not recognize the card. So I did a deeper research and found out that > promise only has proprietary drivers for Redhat, SUSE, and Turbo. Mandrake > is only supported at version 9. So I was out of luck. I searched on > Google and others said that the card is only recognized as ide controller > under linux not raid since it is not real raid. > I don't know if it works when you install mandrake on a separate hard drive > on the same raid controller. > > It 's just my thoughts. > > J.T. > > > Just purchased a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 mother board. It has an on board > >ide > >raid controller, ITE 8211 i think. I have 2 X 250GB maxters set up with > >raid > >0 . Will Mandrake 10.1 (Linux Format mag version) detect and set it up OK. > >I > >already have win 2000 pro on it. > > Also will it make much difference performance wise, booting and running > >mandrake on a raid setup against running it on a standard ide master / > >slave > >set up. I ask as i still have ide channel 0 empty and I am thinking of > >chucking in another drive to run Mandrake on instead of the partition I > >have > >set aside on the raid drives. > > > >____________________________________________________ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > >____________________________________________________
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