[Eug-lug] grrrr.... damn computers!

[larry price]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:42:23 -0500, Linux Rocks!
<linux at rocksolidnetworks.com> wrote:

> This is my hardware:
> 
> ASUS P4R800-V Deluxe motherboard.
> onboard SATA/IDE Raid controller (SIS 180)
> 

> I have slack installed on a 160 GB disk, on the other IDE controller, and have
> built many kernels, and tried many stock kernels (including ataraid.i). Ive
> compiled sata_sis (the driver for sis 180) modules, and in the kernel. Ive
> compiled libata into the kernel, and modules.
> Ive tried dmraid (and device mapper). I get "No Sofware RAID disks" message.
> I dont even know how these drives will appear exactly, but none of the kernels
> Ive used, or modules Ive loaded have shown the 2 raid disks in dmesg (but it
> does show the controller loading, and 2 controller channels.)
> 
> So, Im also confused about what is software raid, soft-hardware raid... It
> sholdnt be that hard to setup!! but yet it is.

usually to setup a hardware raid you'll need to run the manufacturers
provided tool to register the disks and format the RAID partitions,
once you've done that the disks should show up if you have working
drivers.

Software RAID uses the host computer to manage all the parity checking etc.
But since you have the hardware ... 

you might want to check this manual
http://www.sis.com/support/faq/SATA_RAID_manual.pdf