[gentoo-user] ASUS A8V Delux MB - Promise or VIA

[gentoo-user] ASUS A8V Delux MB - Promise or VIA

[Dan Johansson]

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Hi,

I just got a shiny new ASUS A8V Delux MB. This MB has two SATA-Raid 
controllers - one Promise PDC20378 and a VIA VT8237. I want to setup two 
SATA-Disks in a RAID-1 configuration (both controllers support this) and i am 
wondering if someone has experience with this MB (and Gentoo of course) and 
can tell me which RAID-controller works best with Linux.

Regards,
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Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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[gentoo-user] Re: ASUS A8V Delux MB - Promise or VIA

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 13 November 2005 19:58, Dan Johansson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just got a shiny new ASUS A8V Delux MB. This MB has two SATA-Raid
> controllers - one Promise PDC20378 and a VIA VT8237. I want to setup
> two SATA-Disks in a RAID-1 configuration (both controllers support
> this) and i am wondering if someone has experience with this MB (and
> Gentoo of course) and can tell me which RAID-controller works best
> with Linux.
>
> Regards,
I'm using both of them: 4 discs are attached to this box, 1 to IDE0 
channel, 1 to Via and 2 to Promise.

No problem insofar but the fact that disc names are given at boot 
depending on drives attached.
For example if you have sda, sdb and sdc, if you remove sda, then sdb 
and sdc will be renamed and sdc will be missing.
A part this windows-like behaviour both controllers work very well.

AFAIK Knoppix livecd can't see hard drives attached to Promise, but grml 
is very handy, as it comes with LVM tools too: http://www.grml.org/.

Side note: don't trust RAID setting of the motherboard and use Linux 
software RAID. Just google a bit, and you will see a lot of advices of 
this kind.

Ciao
	Francesco
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