JonathonReinhart

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Hello, everyone... Ive been finding a lot of information but it all seems to be outdated on this issue. I have a brand new Sabrent SBT-SRD2 SATA RAID card, and new 2x250GB Maxtor's I want to install in RAID 1 and then install SuSE 10.2 on. All the stuff is sitting at home, but I'm still at college 2 hrs away until Friday. I would like to get some sort of game plan ready before I get this going.

Does anyone have some sort of guidance on the overall process of installing these? I'm guessing I need to first set up the drives in RAID 1. But isn't that done on the BIOS of the card first? I'm worried about the quality of the directions :-p I haven't seen them yet. Then, should I be able to just go ahead with my SuSE installation? Or will I need to install some drivers or something first before I install? The card is based on some Silicon Images chipset, which I have yet to find on the internet, which one.

Any and all advice here is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

DragonM15

Did you ever figure this out? I have the same raid controller, and my linux system isnt seeing my sata drive. The bios on the other hand does.

Some people say the SATA-VIA kernel module makes it work, others use PATA-SIL kernel module. Any news?

Thanks

JonathonReinhart

how can i check this for you? to be honest, i don't know. Suse 10.2 installer took care of everything, if I remember correctly. Maybe all I had to do was make the array first, thru the bios deal... let me know what you want me to look at, and i'll gladly tell you.

Jonathon

DragonM15

Oh, nevermind, I did some tinkering, and updated my hard drives firmware (the one it came with was faulty), and everything works great!