<thread history: The ultimate goal here is to use the 'fake-raid' controller built-in to the ASUS motherboard with the 4 SATA drives that board can natively control *without* having to use a 5th IDE or external drive just to boot the system>
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > Richard Creighton wrote: > <this is obtained using a 5th drive to boot to see if dmraid supports the MB (which it apparently does)> >> I get the following results: >> ASUS:/home/rich # dmraid -r >> /dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_baedieei", raid5_ls, ok, 781422766 sectors, >> data@ 0 >> /dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_baedieei", raid5_ls, ok, 781422766 sectors, >> data@ 0 >> /dev/sdc: nvidia, "nvidia_baedieei", raid5_ls, ok, 781422766 sectors, >> data@ 0 >> /dev/sdd: nvidia, "nvidia_baedieei", raid5_ls, ok, 781422766 sectors, >> data@ 0 >> >> >> ASUS:/home/rich # dmraid -ay -i >> ERROR: device-mapper target type "raid45" not in kernel >> >> > It is probably not in your initrd. BTW, a quick search shows it is > called raid456. > > <snip> Thank you all....this initiates another hunt but at least there is a glow at the end of the tunnel :) Gosh...I hope that isn't a train!!!!! Richard PS... I'm 64 years old....I hope I can actually get this solved before time runs out. I don't want my epitaph to read "Windoze won!" :) > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
