hi all...

im a newbie to forums and linux..

Problem is ..i have a msi p4m900 with VIA® VT8237A Chipset
i'm trying to install raid ....when ever i set bios to ide the drives do not show in redhat..it says no disc..when i change bios to raid and disable
option rom ..the drives(2 X 160gb maxtor) i was able to create raid partion and set raid devices...everythling seems to be going well but durin formatting the system freezes....

any help would be greatly appreciated...

any suggestions?sample config?anything?



thnx in advance


my bad ..ihave tried rhel 4 and 5....can redhat work with thsis chipset? if so how do config?
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Assuming "redhat" means Redhat Enterprise Linux (get used to writing RHEL)...

GRUB won't work properly from RAID, put /boot in it's own partition.

When you set the onboard RAID like that, what does it look like to anaconda? A single big drive or a couple of drives you then configure to RAID?

Ideally you want the un-RAIDed hrives to show up and use linux software RAID (or LVM). That the sata drives do not show up suggests you are using an older version of RHEL. This means that practically anything else will work.

The best advice is: get a recent distro - CentOS 5, say, or f8 - and try that.

If you want to keep trying with your existing RHEL, then you can try getting the sata drives recognised ... disable RAID - at the boot: prompt, try

linux all-generic-ide nommconf noacpi

(emphasis mine)

To understand why, look the history of Red Hat Releases.

jus wanna say thanks...

time was of the essence ,,so i ended up changing the mobo to one without built in raid, the i used software raid in RHEL5....
Is that a workable/meaningful solution?

For future reference, you probably didn't have to swap the mobo. More than likely the on-board (fake) RAID chip could have been used as just another disk controller. Every one of the few I have seen, as well as my HighPoint RocketRAID 133 card, also fake RAID to my chagrin, have an option in the RAID BIOS to be a plain controller. The RocketRAID 133 calls this option "JBOD", Just a Bunch Of Disks.

If this option is available for your old mobo's RAID chip, it would allow you to implement software RAID on that old mobo. You may get more use out of it than you thought.

BTW, a link to the mfr. info. on the board would have helped.

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