Is it possible to run the Intel ICH7R SATA RAID on Linux?

[Jamon Camisso]

Stephen W. Clarke wrote:
> I'm trying to install Whitebox EL4 on a brand new server we just got.
> 
> It came with the Intel ICH7R SATA RAID. (I'm pretty sure its a software
> RAID and is designed to work only with Windows.) My question is, does
> anyone out there know how I can go about making it work with Linux. My
> Linux install disk does recognize the HDD even with the RAID turned off.
> 
> All tips and/or links will be appreciated.

Put the raid controller into plain IDE mode (if it has an option like 
that) and the use a softraid partitioning scheme when you install. Might 
have to fiddle with LVM a bit once you get the softraid setup properly.

Jamon

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