My last 24 hours have been relatively fruitless. I've got a new MSI K8N Neo2 mainboard (running the nVidia nForce 3 Ultra chipset) and two SATA disks to be used in a RAID1 array.
I've followed the mainboard's manual on configuring the RAID array in BIOS. Of course, I think this isn't a true hardware RAID because you need a Windows XP driver install disk. Since I'm using Slackware 10.1 that's relatively useless.
Now when I boot from CD 1 using the sata.i kernel and try cfdisk I can see both SATA drives (as /dev/sda /dev/sdb) and can partition them manually, so I don't need any special SATA drivers.
I also see that it's recognizing a SCSI device, which I assume is my BIOS RAID array? What the heck do I do now? Obviously I want to install my operating system onto the RAID so recompiling a kernel is kind of difficult...
Any and all help is much appreciated, I can't figure out how to make this work. I'll accept if it's impossible for now, and I'm open to switching distros if need be.
Here's some dmesg for ya'.
Code:
NFORCE3-250: 00:08.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hdc: GCR-8523B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
libata version 1.10 loaded.
sata_nv version 0.5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:09.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:0a.0 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9E0 ctl 0xBE2 bmdma 0xC800 irq 10
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xB62 bmdma 0xC808 irq 10
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003 88:407f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 240121728 sectors:
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003 88:407f
ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 240121728 sectors:
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xE000 irq 11
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xE008 irq 11
ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
ata4: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi0 : sata_nv
scsi1 : sata_nv
scsi2 : sata_nv
scsi3 : sata_nv
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0 Rev: YAR5
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0 Rev: YAR5
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 240121728 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB)
Partition check:
sda: sda1 < sda5 > sda2
SCSI device sdb: 240121728 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB)
sdb: sdb1
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 3380.000 MB/sec
32regs : 2100.400 MB/sec
pIII_sse : 7068.800 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 5006.400 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 6289.200 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (7068.800 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
SATA RAID1 in nVidia nFore 3 Ultra ?
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