Re: AMD64 + nvraid installation
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 02:05:50PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
> >>Just a short question: I'm getting an AMD64 system delivered soon,
> >>and I'd like to make use of the nvidia 'softraid' that comes with it
> >>(I need it in both OS' that will run on the box).
> >>
> >>I haven't really found much documentation on this: is this supported
> >>from the debian installer on amd64? Or is it manual work?
> >>
> >
> >Works with mini.iso -- I installed jfs/lvm/raid with the main system
> >on jfs/raid
>
> Using the NVidia fakeraid support, such that Windows is also happy to
> see the drives as RAIDed and boot from them? (as opposed to by using MD)
Just use dmraid, it's a layer on top of MD that is able to read the
proprietary fakeraid configs and make a workable MD device from it.
See http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/ and
http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html .
Erik
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