Featherstone-Hough
August 2nd, 2008, 03:23 AM
Greetings. I'm trying to install Hardy 8.04.1 on a new system with an Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe motherboard, a Phenom 9850 cpu, and two WD 640 GB HD's which I want to be a RAID 1 array. There is an optical drive on the board's only PATA connector, from which I'm running the install CD. The board actually has two RAID controllers on it, a Marvell 6121 controller and an AMD SB600 controller. After a great deal of trial, error, and net searching, I've discovered that both controllers can't be enabled at once, hence the PATA optical drive for the installation.
The problem: The Ubuntu installer won't recognize a RAID array on either controller. But let's consider the Marvell 6121 first. With the 6121 enabled and SB600 disabled in BIOS, and the RAID 1 array defined in the Marvell RAID BIOS, the Ubuntu installation gets up to the point of detecting disks -- and throws up its hands, saying "No disk drive was detected" and offering to let me choose a driver from a list (or supply my own on a floppy).
What to do here? Am I missing something? Is there a driver I can grab from somewhere? (I've searched, to no avail.) Everything looks right in the BIOS settings, and I'm pretty sure the disks themselves are fine.
As a footnote: If I switch to the SB600 SATA controller and attempt to make a RAID 1 array, I go through the right steps in the BIOS, etc., and this time the Ubuntu installer recognizes the disks -- as two separate disks which I'm given the choice to format individually, but no a RAID 1 array. What gives? In my searching online I found a procedure for manually setting up software RAID during the installation, but the whole point of getting a motherboard with RAID controllers was to have... hardware RAID! Is this board just cursed or something?
I'd be hugely appreciative of any help or insight... I'm kind of at my wit's end here and not sure what else to try. Many thanks!
The problem: The Ubuntu installer won't recognize a RAID array on either controller. But let's consider the Marvell 6121 first. With the 6121 enabled and SB600 disabled in BIOS, and the RAID 1 array defined in the Marvell RAID BIOS, the Ubuntu installation gets up to the point of detecting disks -- and throws up its hands, saying "No disk drive was detected" and offering to let me choose a driver from a list (or supply my own on a floppy).
What to do here? Am I missing something? Is there a driver I can grab from somewhere? (I've searched, to no avail.) Everything looks right in the BIOS settings, and I'm pretty sure the disks themselves are fine.
As a footnote: If I switch to the SB600 SATA controller and attempt to make a RAID 1 array, I go through the right steps in the BIOS, etc., and this time the Ubuntu installer recognizes the disks -- as two separate disks which I'm given the choice to format individually, but no a RAID 1 array. What gives? In my searching online I found a procedure for manually setting up software RAID during the installation, but the whole point of getting a motherboard with RAID controllers was to have... hardware RAID! Is this board just cursed or something?
I'd be hugely appreciative of any help or insight... I'm kind of at my wit's end here and not sure what else to try. Many thanks!