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EvgGad
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 Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject: [Solved+solution] Can't get work sata raid on Abit AN8 Ultra |
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Hi all,
I've just built my new system - a64 on an8 ultra and 2x160gb sata drives. I'm trying to install gentoo to raid0 made by build-in nv-raid controller, but fdisk -l says that i've one drive with something on it, and the other one has no first block or something like that...
So here is the question: is here anyone got something similar work?
thanx in advance
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isolationism
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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It should be remarked that most on-board "RAID controllers" are predominantly driven by software (which chiefly runs under Windows). On my VIA board, for example, the supposed "hardware RAID 0/1" controller is treated as nothing more than another couple of SCSI disks within the system -- No RAID is present within Linux whatsoever, even after instructing the "RAID BIOS" to build one.
I recommend doing some digging for your specific controller to confirm this is the case of course, but unless you purchased a dedicated piece of hardware specifically for the task, you've probably got nothing fancier than a dual-channel SATA disk controller on the other end of the ribbon cables.
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EvgGad
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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So, you guys suggest me to make usual software raid? But will windoze see it too and of course will it work on it?
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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With software Linux RAID you have 2 way one only soft standard RAID no Win or dmraid solution and you can use Win too.
Check the links in second post 
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EvgGad
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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I was far away of my box some time.
Thanx all who tried to help me.
I spent a lot of time trying to make system work and now I've fully functional base system, which can boot itself 
Now I'll try to explain how I got things work, maybe it would be useful for someone 
First of all read this https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-258981-hightlight-dmraid.html through, this will be your main guide for installation.
Be aware don't download gen2dmraid livecd as it suggested in Irondog's how-to, this one doesn't work for amd64, if you want to run 64-bit OS then use latest original gentoo a64 livecd.
Boot from livecd and insert a module called "dm_mod".
Next you should get dmraid util from here http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/ but there it is only in source and rpm package, so if you don't have another working system where you can compile it statically or unpack rpm package, you can get it here ftp://digikelder.ee/pub/dmraid/dmraid.static Then run it like this
| Code: | | ./dmraid.static -ay |
it should create device nodes in /dev/mapper, probably they'll appear as nvidia_fcjdbcfh. After that use
| Code: | | fdisk /dev/mapper/nvidia_fcjdbcfh |
make your own partition table and next steps of installation do as it described in Irondogs how-to.
Hope this "crap" will help someone.
Thats all, if you have a questions or, maybe, some additions, go on, post it here.
PS Don't forget to make raid array of your choise in your mobo's sata raid controller setup before doing this all
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:45 am Post subject: thanks |
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thanks for letting us know what u did. i was stuck with this problem. i hope it will works. trying it right now. thanks again  |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:49 am Post subject: |
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| argh ftp is down. anywhere else i can get the static dmraid? |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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| any1? |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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No one?
Ah, forgert it, I made a 32 bit static binary on my other machine. It works
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:09 am Post subject: |
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hi,
here'S alittle update :
no need anymore to compile dmraid on another box. dmraid now works straight out of the box with the new 2005.1-r1 in 64bits, but you must boot with this command : gentoo dodmraid.
my 2 cents,
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