I have the above motherboard and I am trying to use the nforce chipset's raid 5 function for use with three sata 300 gb drives. I enabled the chipset's raid feature in the bios but (as expected) the knoppmythtv cd doesn't see the raid array and wants to pick a drive to install to.

I am a complete noob with linux and need some help trying to figure out how I can get the raid 5 array recognized so I can then install knoppmyth on it?

Thanks for any help,
pr0bity

here is a link for some info on different raid drivers including nvidia.

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

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Hey sinspot,
Thanks for the reply, sorry for not getting back to you sooner, I took a break from the project Anyway I've seen the list and I see how I can get nVidia's drivers. The problem is that I want to install knoppmyth onto the raid array, and nvidia's drivers need to be installed onto an OS.

What I really need is to get the drivers into the knoppmyth distribution or to get the dist to see the drivers and recognized the raid array. One way this can be done is through a raid disk driver (or some combination of those words) which nVidia provides for SUSE or redhat, but not knoppix.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
pr0bity

well Knoppymyth is based off of Debian so if there is a driver for Debain you should be ok. You may also be able to use a generic Linix driver also if they have one. I had kind of the same issue my driver for the raid controller that I wanted to use, was on the knoppmyth cd but where not part of the kernal. So I had to modify lilo and put them in and then recompile the kernal. Once I did that everything was fine.

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Sins,
Thanks for your help, I'm trying to find out how to get the nvidia amd64 linux drivers to be used with my knoppmyth installation cd. Do you have any pointers/advice/explanation on how I would go about modifying lilo to add the new drivers? Also can I recompile the kernel in windows? Etc? As I said I've never used linux before.

Hey sinspot, I noticed your reply on another thread about you trying to put drives in the modules directory of initid or something? Is that what I should be looking at doing? If so where is the thread on that?

This is a link to the post that helped me rebuilt the kernal with a different driver for my system. The idea should work for you also if the driver you need is not in the moduals directory then you would just need to get it in there.


http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... highlight=


let me know if that helps.

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Do you have any idea what your end steps were? I got the idea of it but it looks like you did some legwork that you didn't post in the thread. I'm going to find out if I have kernel support for my controller via a module like you did.

yes I did have to go some leg work myself to get the steps in the right order..... if you need them I have them written down and can post them if you would like.

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That would be a great help, thanks sinspot.

I did this after the install when done before I reboot but you could do this if you booted off of the cd also.

umount the /mnt/hdinstall
mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
cd /mnt/sda1
cd boot
mkdir lb
gunzip initrd.gz
mount -o loop initrd lb
cd lb
cp /lib/modules/2.6.15-chw-2/kernel/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.ko modules/
vi linuxrc
then add "insmod /modules/3w-9xxx.ko" at line 3
save and exit --
cd ..
umount lb
gzip initrd
cd /
chroot /mnt/sda1
su
lilo -v

there you go.

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HI pr0bity
I have a nforce2 mb with a sata raid setup somthing like what your looking for.

I have 2 sata drives in a raid0 cofig, runing debain. This is NOT linux software raid.
On the raid drive I have my windows partiions, And I needed read/write to them from my ata drive where I have linux.

If all you need is to use the aray for is just linux, than use it's software raid. But if you need that aray to hold linux and windows and/or boot to that aray , use "dmraid"

I know dmraid will work on raid0 raid1 I dont know about 5.
You a 2.6+ kernel and it is still in the testing branch of debain.

Just search google for dmraid and see if this might work for you , i know there serveral guides on how to set this up. I am still new to linux (6mo) so it's not that hard to setup.

I hope this helps

Hey thanks for the tip, I'll take a look at it. I am only using linux but I didn't really want to "waste" the nvidida raid controller. I'm not sure if it provides any other benefits over purely linux software raid. I realize the nforce board raid controller is still fakeraid, but there might be some benefit to using it?

I assume the dmraid will allow me to still utilize the onboard raid controller, I'll check that out. Does anyone know if I should just go with software raid? Or am I correct in thinking that there might be some benefit to using the onboard raid controller even though its fakeraid?