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A7V266a-E and Linux Mandrake

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jonmullen

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I have an Asus A7V266a-E with the onboard promise RAID. I have a 160gb RAID 0 array using two Maxtor ata133 7200 rpm drives. I used Partition magic through XP to make a 40gb linux partition and swap file. When I boot from the mandrake cd and it asks me for scsi adapter it does not list any promise controlers. he only one I can use is the ataraid one. But then when it comes to the partition part it says it cant make sense of my partitions? What do I need to do. Did partition magic screw up or is linux just not making sense of my raid array. Please Help!!!!
 
I dont think linux supports promise raid controllers. Last I heard is that Promise is not releasing information about their controllers to linux developers and instead of reverse engineering the Windows software to the point it would make them compatible they decided to write their own software, which is incompatible. So, I would move to a real raid card or a basic ata controller and do software raid from that instead of this increadibly proprietary bios enhanced software raid thingy.
 
I know promise RAID controlers are not the best... If I had the cash I would get a 3ware controler but I don't. I did notice that promise had suport for red hat and some other flavors of linux, but mandrake does not let you use a device driver. I guess what I am asking is am I going to have to buy a third hardrive to dedicate to linux or is there any way I can get it to work
 
Originally posted by: jonmullen
I know promise RAID controlers are not the best... If I had the cash I would get a 3ware controler but I don't. I did notice that promise had suport for red hat and some other flavors of linux, but mandrake does not let you use a device driver. I guess what I am asking is am I going to have to buy a third hardrive to dedicate to linux or is there any way I can get it to work
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You can probably get the redhat driver to work with mandrake. Take a look at the mandrake users' forum and see if anyone has made a thread about it.
 
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