Hi Slugs,
I've picked up a new box, intel server with inbuilt SATA raid and a SATA
raid 4 port card also.
The inbuilt SATA raid will do raid 0 or 1.
The SATA raid card can have 4 drives and do raid 0,1,5. Standard stuff.
I've setup heaps of SCSI raid configs in the past and no problems.
This is my first SATA raid config box.
In the hardware i'm setting the inbuilt SATA raid to raid1 and setting
one logical drive.
In the hardware i'm setting the SATA raid 5 controller to raid 5 with
the 4 drives and one logical drive. (raid5 with one online spare)
When I boot CentOS 4.2 (redhat based distro) it finds the raid 5 as one
drive ok, but the inbuilt raid drive it finds as two drives and NOT the
raid 1 set up in the BIOS.
the inbuilt raid controller is LSI logic.
Initially I got errors about the raid1 being...
"The partition table on device sda was unreadable... Press YES to
initialize and wipe out all your data."
Have Googled and all I come up with is that Linux does NOT support SATA
raid! This cannot be right as the raid5 is working OK.
Any clues or anyone using Intel servers out there?
Or is it the LSI logic raid onboard controller?
Should I do a software raid1?
Any past experiances?
Ben
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