Mandrake won't see RAID array on Adaptec card/Proliant server

[David Burch_3]

Greetings. The Mandrake 9.2 installation routine does not see my RAID 1 array. It complains that the partition table is corrupt, and makes that complaint separately for each of my drives, describing them as physical drives sda and sdb. The disk partition utility shows the two drives instead of one RAID array.

I'm using an Adaptec AAA-130U2 PCI RAID controller in a Compaq Proliant 800 server. I know that the RAID card is working because my SCSI drives are visible on boot, and I am able to install and use the Compaq utilities partition. Mandrake appears to load the SYMx853 and AIC-7815 drivers.

Any ideas? Thanks.

[Steven E. Protter]

Is all the hardware on Mandrakes compatability list?

Are the drivers you are using consistent with the version of MAndrake?

The SCSI card seem quite generic.

I know when configuring Raid during a Linux install, two disks will appear separate. You first set up the raid paritition and then you set up the filesystem.

SEP

[Emory Cowan_1]

Use the AIC7XXX_OLD driver for compatibility.

http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2003-01/msg07138.php