I am trying to install Ubuntu 6.10 x64 with a Silicon Image Sil3114 RAID Controller card and 4

500G Harddrives. I am falling at the first hurdle, I created the RAID Group with the 4 HD in the

BIOS and then installed Ubuntu 6.10. The HD Layout becomes;

/dev/sda - 500 GB ATA (RAID Controller)
/dev/sdb - 500 GB ATA (RAID Controller)
/dev/sdc - 500 GB ATA (RAID Controller)
/dev/sdd - 500 GB ATA (RAID Controller)
/dev/sde - 160 GB ATA

I would have preferred if the 160 GB ATA was /dev/hda but it is not.

I partitioned /dev/sde with

/ ext3
/swap

to take the OS while I want the 4 on the RAID controller to be seen as one 2 TB partition.

However before I can even get to installing the SATARAID5 driver I cannot boot the box because I

ger the following error.

GRUB 1.5
Error 17

Hello,

I have not loaded raid 5 on Ubuntu, however I have loaded it on FreeBSD and am now attempting to load a 1640 on Ubuntu.

1. You need to load the drivers for the SI controller. I couldn't find a native driver for this controller in Linux when I had Raid5 on a mother board in the past, nor could I find the sources. Linux is somewhat deficient in this area.
2. If you can't find a driver for Ubuntu (not unusual for linux. FreeBSD you can often find drivers for Raid 5), see if the vendor will provide you with the sources. HighPoint-tech has an open source driver for their Raid5 1640 controller. I have not sucessfully built it yet, but I am no master when it comes to compiling sources, and hopefully in the next few days have it done for ubuntu.
3. In the Bios, you will need to set the boot priority of the Raid5 drive before your /sde disk.
4. If your sde drive is set up in the Bios as Raid it will show up as 'SD'. On most linux's if you set the drive up as IDE (in the BIOS) even on an SATA controller, it will show up as 'HD'.

Since all your drives are showing as SDx's, you should have no problem with boot priority however.