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I was using a hardware-based 'fakeRAID'. It used to work on my old |
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OpenSuse install, but that broke and I installed gentoo instead. I |
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wasn't able to get that to work, and then the motherboard died, so I |
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built a new system and reused the 3-drive RAID5 array. |
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> While in the first case you see all individual disks with their partitions and |
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> a /dev/mdX entry that actually contains the raid failsystem, the second one |
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> shows only a /dev/sdX holding the final raid drive. |
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> Additionally, for the hardware based raid, you'll need a driver for the |
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> controller that supports the raid5. I think this is the configuration you're |
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> trying to run, since you mentioned that you created your raid in the RAID |
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> BIOS. |
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> I'm not sure (I've never tried this) whether there is a driver for Linux |
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> supporting raid modes on board-embedded HW raid controllers. |
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> Alex |
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