On (10/03/05 19:33), Joshua Moore wrote: > I hate to bring this up again, but this is the only discussion I've been > able to find that speaks around my specific needs. I have the Abit AV8 and > Athlon64 3000 CPU. When I try to install Debian with RAID-0 (two Western > Digital SATA drives), it gets to the partitioning part and then it sees two > drives. Shouldn't it only see one? I can't seem to get it to recognize > one big drive (I think it's called striping?). I have SATA RAID ROM set to > ENABLED in the BIOS and I've hit [TAB] at startup and used the auto setup > to make a RAID-0 array, and I've set it to be a bootable array. What else > do I need to do in order to get it to work. Please copy any responses to > my email, as I am not a member of this list yet. There has been an extensive thread on debian-user on software raid v hardware raid and which boards provide real hardware raid. I suspect your board is not true hardware raid and you need to set it up in software - install mdadm:
http://juerd.nl/site.plp/debianraid http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org/ http://xtronics.com/reference/SATA-RAID-Debian.htm Regards Clive > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:04:40 +0200, Kyuu Eturautti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >My best experiences by far have been with Abit KV8-Pro and AV8 boards, > >both with K8T800 Pro chipsets. I have not used audio in a single > >AMD64+Linux system though, but as for stability, quality and hardware > >compatibility (except for audio, not tested) with Debian Pure64, I > >haven't had any problems. As for onboard LAN, the via-velocity has > >performed quite well. Via kindly provides sources that work with older > >kernel versions too, as I believe the driver came with the kernel only > >starting from 2.6.9. > > I have an ABIT AV8 (v1.1) The LAN driver did not load so I put in a > RealTek card and moved on. Sound on the motherboard works fine. > > I do have RAM issues in that I have to run the RAM at DDR333 instead > of DDR400 (for which it is speced) and this board is known to be > sensitive to the quality of the RAM. (I think that means that not all > RAM will work at advertised rates. ;) But at DDR333 the system is rock > solid. > > (I should probably disclaim that I'm currently running Ubuntu, but > under the covers it sure looks like Debian.) > > -- > Beautiful Sunny Winfield > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
