Hi, and thanks to all of you in advance for coming here to help me

I just bootet up the Gentoo LiveCD Version 2004.0 (minimal), using the "SMP"-Image, which is 2.6.[dont remember], and the two drives of mine, configured as a stripe-array, attached to my Intel ICH5R-RAID-Controller (SATA, integrated into the Southbridge of all Intel i865/875 (Springdale/Canterwood) Mainboards these days), show up as TWO SEPERATE devices, namely /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Accoring to fdisk, both of them are 160GB in size. However, under Windoze, the correctly configured array is recognized as a 320GB Disk-Array... so my question now is if there is any way to get Linux to accept the Controller-based striping method for both of the disks, or if I will have to live with 2x 160GB single disks ;(

Any usefull comment and/or input is highly appreciated!

Greetings from Austria, and sorry for my bad english
colo

No idea anyone?

boohoo

My understanding from talking with tech support for the E7210 (Canterwood) chipset is that unless you can get a driver to support the southbridge, it's game over. I have not seen any drivers from the raid.

Does your system talk to the disk at full speed or at 33mb/s only. You can test with doing a hdparms -t /dev/hda. If's it at 12mb/s it's only 33mbs.

Well, i don't know if there are any binary drivers for the ICH5-SB, however, I don't care about that any more

Since the SATA-Controller (without the driver-emulated RAID-functionality under Windows) is perfectly recognized and supported under Linux, I decided to use the kernel-built-in software-RAID, and I'm really happy with it

What is the speed like?

hdparm reports about 102mb/sek for the outermost RAID0-Array on the Samsung SP1612C-Disks. Quite nice imo