Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 135687
sata_sil loads but won't recognize striped raid
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:51 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 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 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 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:
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.