I am about to attempt an install of slack 10 on my machine which has 2 40GB drives (ide drives with parallel ata to sata converters) in a raid 0 array, sata. I've read about a lot of people who have been having a lot of trouble with this.

From what I gather, I need to create some boot discs from sata.i and the install.1 and install.2 files from slack's ftp site. I'll be doing that from the bare.i (hopefully) after booting from the slack 10 CD.

I understand this kernel should give me sata support, but regarding the raid aspect, is that strictly handled by my motherboard's raid controller, or do need a kernel which supports that as well?

I am under the impression that the sata raid controller makes the OS think that there is a single SATA drive installed. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I am using an ASROCK K7V88 motherboard with a VIA VT8237 southbridge chipset that supports the serial ATA hard disks and RAID functions.

any input would be appreciated.

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What worked for me was to download the current tree and make a bootable CD (there are easy instructions in isolinux/README.txt) then boot using sata.i.

I'm sure you could do the same with the 10.0 tree and add the sata.i kernel to the tree.

The Slackware kernels I've used all come with support for software RAID. Since you're planning to use the hardware RAID built into your motherboard, you don't need to do anything but setup RAID in the BIOS. The software RAID will just be ignored and the hardware will handle it all transparently to the system.

Dennisk