From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Problems with ata-piix driver Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:20:00 -0400 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40CFBC60.5000606@pobox.com> References: <2CAA5C8E-BEC8-11D8-BEE9-000A95B0A866@wm.edu> <40CFB5D7.2000702@miraclelinux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:33674 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266094AbUFPDUP (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:20:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <40CFB5D7.2000702@miraclelinux.com> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "IKARASHI, Seiichi" Cc: Norman Elton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org IKARASHI, Seiichi wrote: > Hi, > > How about reconstruct the SATA RAID volume into > non-RAID volumes (separated single disks)? > The ata_piix/libata driver in RHEL3 seems not support > SATA RAID. When I encountered a similar situation on a machine > which was connected with a SATA HDD with its Intel 6300ESB chip > on-board, I made the RAID function of ESB disable and installed OS. This is something different -- the hardware does NOT support RAID. A separate software RAID driver is required for Intel's proprietary RAID format. This driver has been posted to linux-kernel for 2.4.x, but is not available for 2.6.x kernels. Jeff