[ILUG] intel ich5 sata raid controller

Tue Jan 6 20:10:34 GMT 2004

Afaik, SATA is supposed to use the SCSI emulation.

Steph

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 20:11, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> anyone got any experience of installing onto one of these.  I've never used
> RAID or SATA directly myself so it's all a little new to me and being over
> the phone ain't helping much either.
> 
> The guy I'm helping has done/seen the following:
> 
> * some funkiness with Partition Magic to "hide" the windows partition and
> creating an ext2 & a swap partition
> * popped in a Mandrake 9.2 install cd 
> * after booting the 2.4.22-10 kernel he gets asked which scsi/raid
> controller he'd like it to use.
> * scratched his head.
> 
> This is all new to me but my googling informs me that this is in fact
> software raid not hardware as he was led to believe.  I understand that
> patches were made to 2.4.22 to first support this controller.  Is this
> correct?  I also notice talk of a sub-driver "iswraid" for the 2.4.22 which
> stands for "intel software raid".
> 
> Can anyone shed some light? 
> 
> Gavin
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