Re: sil3114 problem

2005-08-05 Thread the . death . angel 
Dear all,

thanks for your replies. I would like to use real raid. As I have to use
Windows and Linux, software raid will not be that good for me. Additionally,
it will not be that fast for cutting of films from my camcorder.

I checked the Promise SX4M (or so). On the manufacturer page, there is no
information, that this is also software raid. Additionally a guy said, that
it works fine in sarge. What I figured out is that this is the same sh...
but with hardware support. Of course, Linux still does not use the raid
functionality. So I guess, I will have to change this card to a 3ware, which
is a lot more expensive. But it should work. At least I hope so.

Do you know any other good hardware raid controllers, that are not that
expensive? 

Best regards,
Matt


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 Von: Adam Skutt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Betreff: Re: sil3114 problem
 Datum: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:59:17 -0400
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I used the amd64 version of sarge. When I boot, the debian installer
 shows,
  that it loads the sil3114 module. However, when doing the partitioning,
  debian shows me three independent hard disks, although I set up a raid
 array
  in the BIOS. I know, that sil3114 is only a fake raid controller, but I
  think, when the driver is loaded, the operating system should not
 recognize
  this fact and show me the array. Am I wrong there?
 To be 100% perfectly clear, yes you are wrong.
 
 In the case of all the SATA chipsets which provide BIOS RAID (which is
 like, all of them) the regular libata drivers will not see the array
 created in the bios, they will simply ignore it.
 
 If you really must use it, you can use dm-raid to get chipset specific
 support.  But you should only do that if you need to share a RAID array
 with Windows.  Otherwise, use the in-kernel software MD driver.
 
  Even if this is not really belonging here (but might still be a hint for
 a
  solution), Windows XP (32 bit) crashes completely, before I am able to
  create/ select a partition, no matter if the sil drivers are loaded or
 not.
 Are you loading the right driver off a floppy?
 
 Adam
 
 
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sil3114 problem

2005-08-03 Thread the . death . angel 
Hello,

I got a new Computer the last days and tried to install an operating system
on it.
I used the amd64 version of sarge. When I boot, the debian installer shows,
that it loads the sil3114 module. However, when doing the partitioning,
debian shows me three independent hard disks, although I set up a raid array
in the BIOS. I know, that sil3114 is only a fake raid controller, but I
think, when the driver is loaded, the operating system should not recognize
this fact and show me the array. Am I wrong there?

Even if this is not really belonging here (but might still be a hint for a
solution), Windows XP (32 bit) crashes completely, before I am able to
create/ select a partition, no matter if the sil drivers are loaded or not.

I am using the Gigabyte GA-K8N Ulta-SLI mainboard.

I would be very thankful, if someone could help me out here. I do not want
to buy a Promise controller, but will have to, if I can not set up my system
with the sil3114.

Regards,
Matt

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