Topic: New install using raid card

[steriz]

Hi folks need some help!

Trying to install sme 6 using raid card with x2 80gb hardisks IDE they are both set to masters primary & secondary. when card boots up it sees the drives no problem. when installing sme it comes up with no hardisks detected. I set up sme 6 about 10 months ago with the same setup and had no trouble, have i missed something out somewhere its been along time just getting back into it.

Regards Steve

[guest22]

Hi,

What card/model are you using?

[steriz]

Hi thanx for reply,

It's ITE IT8212 Raid controller (device manager XP)

ATA 133 made in Taiwan (is this bad?)

sorry thats all info i have it works fine in XP but thats no good for me

Steve

[MSmith]

... but have you told the card to create an array in its BIOS setup?

[steriz]

yes created all types no joy

[Reinhold]

steriz,

The ITE IT8212 isn't really a hardware RAID Controller. - Like similar offers from Highpoint/Promise it's a Bios-Raid (iow an IDE controller+Raid Bios).

This stuff is almostl always slower and definitely inferior to a real Raid controller or a Linux software Raid.

Drivers for the "F" version of the chipset do work under SUSE 9.x but are slow ...

In the moment I have no direct access to the hardware  to check but you can go grab the binary&sourcecode for yourself at: http://www.ite.com.tw/  (be patient ... it used to be veeeeeerrrrryy slow)

The company had a hard time in 2003 and (if I remember correctly) underwent change of ownership. Several I/O products they made "lost support" during that phase and the sofware I've seen was all end of 02/mid'03 (+ buggy ).

Regards
Reinhold

P.S.: IMnsHO "dump it ...at least to a windows pc" and go for software raid on SME.

[steriz]

Thanks for all your help the card is in the bin and i'm off to e-bay. (3ware has been recommended)

Regards Steve