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On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:45:28 +0800, Ho-Ki Au wrote: |
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> I was trying to put gentoo on a dell poweredge 1950 quadcore xeon |
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> machine with three disks connected to a lsi PERC 5/i raid controller. |
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> In the BIOS settings, all three disks were added to the controller for |
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> a RAID5 set up. When I boot from LiveCD (2008 version with 2.6.24-r5 |
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> kernel) with dmraid='-ay' option, it came up not recognizing the RAID |
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> set, |
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dmraid is for software RAID. If you have a hardware RAID controller, |
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you should just see the single device presented by the controller, not the |
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three individual disks. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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If the pen is mightier than the sword, and a picture is worth a thousand |
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words, how dangerous is a fax? |
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