Re: Installing on a machine with nvidia RAID
On Friday 21 April 2006 14:32, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 20 April 2006 10:44, David Goodenough wrote:
> > Yes I think I need dmraid. Looking at the Debian Installer FAQ there
> > is reference to using the installer Device Manager.
>
> Not sure what you mean. The only reference to dmraid I can find in the FAQ
> is:
> SATA RAID Chipsets or PCI/PCIe-cards software RAIDs are not supported
> yet, or not completely, see dmraid 1 2, if you do not need to dual
> boot to a MS Windows installed on such a software raid system, please
> use the DebianInstaller default raid manager, above mentioned, it is
> far more tested and seems equally fast.
>
> This clearly stated that dmraid is not supported.
> The default RAID manager refers to software RAID, which means you'd have
> to disably SATA-RAID in your BIOS.
I had obviously misread the paragraph you quote. Somehow I had read "default
raid manager" as "device manager", but get better glasses! I will look into
using the "default raid manager".
David
>
> > There was talk about dmraid as far back as November last year, and
> > someone (I forget who) talked about including a dmraid udeb. But I
> > could not find any reference as to whether this had happened, or what
> > the planned timescale for its inclusion would be.
>
> Right, and it's not been implemented in d-i yet.
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