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Gatesgamer33

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Help with installing Arch x64 to Silicon Image SiI 0680 raid card

I am having one heck of a time trying to find information on installing Arch on a Silicon Image SiI 0680 raid card. I have searched both the wiki and the forums and I cannot find any information about this card. I am trying to install a raid 0 setup on Arch x64 Could someone point me in the right direction, any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Information about the card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6816132004

hw-tph

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Re: Help with installing Arch x64 to Silicon Image SiI 0680 raid card

What kind of information are you looking for? The card should be supported (yes, the default Arch kernel ships with the pata_sil680 module), so the generic installation instructions in the wiki should be all you need.

lilsirecho

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Re: Help with installing Arch x64 to Silicon Image SiI 0680 raid card

Perhaps man mdadm will give you some install info for raid.

Usual use of mdadm ...assemble....run mdadm -D --scan /etc/mdadm.conf.... mkinitcpio -p kernel26...

This enters mdadm data into initramfs such that the system will boot, assembling the raid and mount it.

If using raid to boot, grub needs an entry in kernel to ID the raid.(i.e.md=0).

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lilsirecho

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Re: Help with installing Arch x64 to Silicon Image SiI 0680 raid card

My memory has slipped a bit:  the following is more to the point than my reference to md=0!

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Re: [SOLVED] usb /boot, RAID5 /root, mkinitcpio.conf help request
The array stabalized and I was able to reboot with the following entry in my menu.lst:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/md0 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md2 : active raid5 sdi1[0] sdg1[3] sdh1[2] sdk1[1]
      2197715712 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]

md1 : active raid5 sda3[0] sdf3[5] sde3[4] sdc3[3] sdd3[2] sdb3[1]
      7252222400 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU]

md0 : active raid5 sda2[0] sde2[5] sdf2[4] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1]
      52451840 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU]

Thank you very much to everyone in this thread.  I really appreciate the help. 
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Gatesgamer33

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Re: Help with installing Arch x64 to Silicon Image SiI 0680 raid card

I used the pata_sil680 module, but with no success. When I load the module, it gives me 6 partitions with 0 MB in them. Can anyone help me, I'm kinda lost.

Last edited by Gatesgamer33 (2009-09-10 03:45:00)

lilsirecho

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Re: Help with installing Arch x64 to Silicon Image SiI 0680 raid card

As I understand your module, it can be used to setup raid5.

Is that correct?

I assume you have the linux driver for the card installed.

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