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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: steriz on December 03, 2004, 10:10:45 PM
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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 :hammer:
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Hi,
What card/model are you using?
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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
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... but have you told the card to create an array in its BIOS setup?
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yes created all types no joy
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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.
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Thanks for all your help the card is in the bin and i'm off to e-bay. (3ware has been recommended)
Regards Steve :pint: