Ok, I’ve got FC5 up and running but did not have the sata controllers enabled in the bios when I did the initial install (yeah stupid I know now). So now I’m trying to get my RAID5 setup now that I have my 4x400gig drives installed. I turned on the sata controllers in the BIOS and set it up as RAID5. This is an nvidia nforce430 chipset.
When I boot into linux it times out during hardware detection. When I finally get into linux, I can see for sata drives under /dev (sd[abcd]). So I think the sata controller is being used properly. Now my problem is when I try to setup an array. If I run[code]dmraid -l[/code] it says that the nvidia raid controller supports RAID0, 1, 10 and contatination (I assume this is JBOD). I’m using dmraid-1.0.0.rc9. I believe that RAID5 support was added in rc11 if I read the release notes properly. So I need to find where I can get a more recent version from.
Ok, now onto more of my problem. When I run [code]dmraid -r[/code] it sees 2 of the 4 drives with an “unknown” RAID type (RAID5). The other two drives do not appear to be properly recognized (I’ll try to post the output when I get home again)… Is this a problem with my mobo, dmraid, the fact that I didn’t do all this during the initial install?
I just want to get RAID5 working. I don’t really care how it’s done. At this point I’m considering just starting over with FC6. I’ve seen a more recent version of dmraid for FC6 (rc13 I believe).
[b]Is there another way to get this working (RAID5) without reformatting the whole thing?[/b]
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