Hardware Raid Issue
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Hello Mepis Community,
Now that I have resolved all my other problems, the last one on my list is to fix my raid issue. I currently am using the Gigabyte GA-7nnxp motherboard with the onboard raid, however, i have the settings set in the bios for the raid to function as ATA, if I boot into my windows partition, I can see all the drives as individuals harddrives. However, I cannot see the harddrives in linux, I am unfamiliar on the whole mounting thing. My questions are as follow:
1) How can I make sure that Mepis sees/identifies the raid controller (if I go into Info center and click PCI I see the following
0000:01:0c.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT/ITE8212 Dual channel ATA Raid controller)
Flags:bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 9410 [size = 8]
I/O ports at 9800 [size = 4]
I/O ports at 9c10 [size = 8]
I/O ports at a000 [size = 4]
I/O ports at a400 [size = 16]
I have no clue what this means. I am still newbie trying to get my configuration and periphials in order.
My motherboard has two ethernets, one intel gigabit ethernet controller which is not working fine and the other is the nVidia Corporation nForce2 ethernet controller which is working fine, how can i get the intel one to work?
Whatever information you need to help me address these issues just ask.
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Check the motherboard manual or data sheet for additional info. Some of them need drivers which means that they don't have a true hardware raid inplementation. When you have a motherboard with a true hardware raid inplementation, you don't need any driver although you use DOS, windows, BSD, Linux or other OS.
Under Linux you can build a raid with a standard motherboard and at least two hard disks.
As far as I know, those motherboards needing drivers to make the raid work are aimed to Windows users.