Joshua Moore wrote:
I hate to bring this up again, but this is the only discussion I've been able to find that speaks around my specific needs. I have the Abit AV8 and Athlon64 3000 CPU. When I try to install Debian with RAID-0 (two Western Digital SATA drives), it gets to the partitioning part and then it sees two drives. Shouldn't it only see one? I can't seem to get it to recognize one big drive (I think it's called striping?). I have SATA RAID ROM set to ENABLED in the BIOS and I've hit [TAB] at startup and used the auto setup to make a RAID-0 array, and I've set it to be a bootable array. What else do I need to do in order to get it to work. Please copy any responses to my email, as I am not a member of this list yet.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thanks for being honest. Do not enable the RAID in the BIOS. The RAID is not supported. The kernel drivers for all of the chips having RAID features on any AMD64 motherboard only support individual drives not an array of drives. The RAID features only work in DOS or Windows not under Linux. The disk controller chips on the AMD64 motherboards are really bad and the RAID0 is no faster than individual disks anyway: http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q2/chipset-raid/index.x?pg=28 Turn the RAID mode off! editor@postscript.port5.com AMD Athlon64 @2.4Ghz Corsair TwinX1024-3200XL @480Mhz DDR ASUS A8V Deluxe ASUS Radeon A9250Ge/Td/256 Creative SB Live WD Raptor SATA Maxtor PATA IBM/Okidata Color PostScript3 Lexmark Mono PostScript2 Debian GNU/Linux debian-amd64/pure64 sid Kernel 2.6.10 XFree86 4.3.0 Xorg X11R6.8.2 1.5 Mb DSL