Kenneth Schneider wrote: <snip> >>>> <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> >>>> >>> The ultimate goal should be to have the best raid 5 possible with the >>> hardware you have ;-p >>> >> <snip> >> >> ...I did. In fact, in order to get the 5th drive to run my tests, I >> had to cannibalize an older RedHat system that is 'wounded' because I >> lost a cpu fan and damaged the cpu chip. I was going to replace the MB >> in that system at some point but now, I may also be short a drive having >> had to use it in what I thought was ample hardware; A new ASUS system >> MB with 4 SATA drives and with a so-called hardware raid controller >> built-in to the MB. As it turns out, that controller is a 'fake-raid' >> which borrows cpu cycles but still, with the hardware I had, under >> Windoze, the configuration would have worked (demonstrated), but I >> refuse to contaminate my system with that OS and I believe anything >> Windoze can do, Linux can (or should) be able to do better. >> > You are right that linux _should_ be able to do that same things that > windows does. The problem is the s l o w adoption by the hardware > providers in providing *proper* drivers for their hardware, like ATI and > Nvidia are trying to do. This will not happen until they get together > with the kernel developers to come up with a solution. > > Very true. I have fought this type of battle for years and I support vendors that *try* and do my best to vote with my feet against those vendors that are so myopic that they only see M$ and ignore Linux and Mac or anyone else. I have had very good luck in the past with ASUS and I do believe Nvidia is trying (their web site has Linux drivers as does their MB documentation/hardware kit) but as new as their support is, SUSE 10.2 is newer and I appreciate the difficulty of the manufacturers trying to hit a rapidly moving target such as openSUSE. M$ succeeds in part because only one entity controls the product, with *us* (meaning the Linux community), there are thousands of contributers. That is both our strength and our weakness. Strength because we cannot be railroaded into accepting crappola, weak because it is often hard to get even two people to agree on anything, much less thousands. Even so, I opt for the challenge of Linux and I will continue to vote with my feet and work to make Linux work better than M$ in everything *including* booting from a 'fake-raid' capable mother board. I have 'Googled' well over a thousand articles on this subject, many before posting the first query here on this support forum and I can assure you that using the 'md-raid' method is not so pretty either (per other suggestions on this thread - (good link at http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=158475 ... follow the docs he wrote if you want a good tutorial). Anyway, the search continues. The method actually works with Umbuntu live cd install with a tweak but I prefer to make SUSE work as that is my preferred distro. Thanks for everyone's help... Richard
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