Hi everybody,

I have a MSI K7N2 DELTA2 PLATINUM MB featuring NFORCE2 ULTRA 400 GB chipset which uses NVRAID to run SATA RAID ARRAYS directly from the NVIDIA southbridge !

My problem is that my RAID0 ARRAY is not recognized neither by MANDRAKE 10.1 POWERPACK ( 2.6.8 kernel ) nor by SUSE PRO 9.2 ... in fact the partition manager in these two distros show me two separate disks of 250 GB instead of one RAID0 device of 500 GB !!!

Does anybody can help me out ?

Is there SATA RAID drivers for NVRAID planned for development and if yes, in which revision of the kernel module will they be included in ?

THANX

!!! micod2000 !!!

I don't know anything about Mandrake or 2.6.8 kernels, but the early fedora core 3 kernels had issues with SATA drives. As far as I know it has been fixed.

It should work if you set up software raid on the 2 recognized drives.

The RAID feature that comes with motherboards these days do not work in Linux because Linux goes deeper than Windows to handle hardware. To setup RAID in Linux, I suggest deleting the RAID array and using Linux software RAID. It is possible to use the BIOS RAID (software RAID) in Linux if you use dmraid (what I read). I do not suggest using RAID 0 for Linux because it will not speed up accessing files and you will have double the chance that a hard drive will fail. RAID 1 is better in Linux because the biggest file that some programs use is about 4 MB. One hard drive can easily spit that data in less than a second. The only time RAID 0 will show off its speed is when sending >100 MB file(s) through a 1 Gbit network, recording raw video, and recording raw sound.