Raid problem. Can't get bios to hold values or be detected in raid utility

[Jeff Zidek]

What is the most linux friendly RAID controller card?  All I want is
miroring.  I hope buying the ABIT board wasn't a mistake.  Jeff
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 04:00, Warren Togami wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Zidek" <z-man at hawaii.rr.com>
> To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 3:42 PM
> Subject: [luau] Raid problem. Can't get bios to hold values or be detected
> in raid utility
> 
> 
> > I bought an Abit KG7-RAID board and two 60 gig maxtor ATA 100 7200 rpm
> > hard drives and I would like to one to mirror the second.  They are
> > initially seen by the bios but upon saving the setting and exiting they
> > drop off and are not detected.  I have tried every way I know to
> > configure the jumper settings on the drives with no luck.  Any idea of
> > what is causing my dilema.?  It hangs after exiting the bios also and
> > only accepts a hard reset powering down the unit or I get blank screen.
> > I am using a 900 Megahertz Duron that appears to be working fine.
> > Anyone have any suggestions.  Jeff
> 
> Please read through the Abit Motherboard Forum at AMDMB.com.
> http://www.amdmb.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=7
> Most of the current discussion there seems to be about the Abit KG7
> motherboard.  It may be that you need to flash your BIOS.
> 
> I hope you don't plan on using the onboard RAID controller on that
> motherboard.  RAID 1 is only possible with the very problematic (and
> sometimes impossible to install) binary only drivers for old kernels of
> Linux distributions.  No chance of upgrading your kernel if using their
> binary-only drivers.
> 
> Arjan van de Ven of Red Hat made open source drivers for the Promise
> FastTrak and HPT370 controllers for RAID 0 only operation, but no current
> Linux distributions will install out of the box.  The installation procedure
> for this driver is very difficult and time consuming.  It took me nearly 8
> hours of research and an extra harddrive to figure it out.  I attempted to
> make a modified RH 7.2 installer driver disk for this, but it turns out to
> be impossible because RH 7.2's anaconda lacks ataraid device support.
> 
> 
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