Bug 135687 - sata_sil loads but won't recognize striped raid
Summary: sata_sil loads but won't recognize striped raid
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 3
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-14 13:44 UTC by Vern Poythress
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-10-14 21:44:19 UTC
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Description Vern Poythress 2004-10-14 13:44:30 UTC
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Description of problem:
Fedora Core 2 runs fine, and recognizes SATA drives, provided I don't
use raid.  But with striped raid neither fc2 nor fc3test3 installs
properly.  Anaconda loads the sata_sil module, and recognizes that I
have sda and sdb drives.  But it says that they aren't formatted
properly.  It offers to wipe them clean, which I refuse.  Then it is
still willing to install fc3 on an IDE drive.  OK, but I want to put
it on the SATA raid drives.

Here are the gory details.  I have Gigabit GA-7N400 Pro2 motherboard
with nForce2 chipset and SATA raid with chipset Sil3112 (also on the
motherboard).  The SATA raid is set in BIOS to be a striped set,
connected to two identical Maxtor 6Y160MO SATA hard drives, 160GB
each.  The CPU is Athlon XP 3000+.  The striped set is working
properly, because a Windows 2000 install program can see it once the
proper Sil drivers are loaded.

I suspect the problem is with sata_sil module.  Apparently it is not
correctly recognizing that I have a striped raid set.

Regards,
Vern Poythress

  

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a striped sata raid in BIOS
2. Start anaconda in normal mode
3. Get to point where it is ready to partition 
    

Actual Results:  Anaconda doesn't recognize that I have striped SATA raid.

Expected Results:  Offer to partition sda (after recognizing that it
is striped raid).

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-10-14 21:44:19 UTC
The various IDE RAID adapters out there don't actually provide a real
"hardware" RAID and are instead completely software.  The kernel does
not at present provide support for this functionality.


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