Installing FC8 on Intel Server board S3000AH with Hardware RAID enabled

[rabh]

Hi All,
I just assembled a server to work as a File server. I added 3 SATA HDDs in this system. I configured two logical drives as follows using Intel Embedded RAID (LSI MegaRaid):
1. Single 80GB HDD in RAID-0 mode (HDD attached to SATA port-0)
2. Two 400GB HDDs in RAID-1 mode (Disks on SATA ports 2 and 3)

When I try to install FC8 on this system, the FC8 sees all 3 disks as sda, sdb and sdc. I expect to see only two disks as the hardware RAID should present each logical disk as separate disk to OS.

Can someone help me in this. The help pages on Intel and LSI webpages show the drivers and insructions of RHEL3 and RHEL4.

Does anyone have experience with FC8 on this mother board with Hardware RAID enabled?

thanks and regards,
Ravi

[SlowJet]

I was looking at the mobo yesterday (and the 5000).

According to the pdf for using the cu in the bios.
configure and then initialize. Did you initialize the configured arrays?

According to the read.txt file, the drv is only for specific Linux distros, with a note to add for others.
(It also explain how to use the drv during installation of various ways (floppy - linux dd),
It does not say it will work in F8, but you could check the kernel log or lsi site for support added for lsi 3000 sever board intl, etc. It may be in the 24 kernel or F9 rawhide?)


good luck and make a note if you make any progress.

SJ