NhatPhongTran wrote:

> I just bought a Promise FastTrak 4650 RAID controller which I intended
> to use for a 4 HDD RAID 10 array. My system runs on opensuse11 64bit.
> Now I got the very annoying problem, that I don't got any drivers for
> opensuse11 to get the raid being recognized. The drivers on the homepage
> are for suse10 or rhel5, but no opensuse11. Since I'm still new to all
> this, I'd appreciate any help how to get the appropriate drivers running
> on opensuse11.

First, you got what it is called a "fakeraid" card. These cards need a
manufacturer driver to properly being recognized and handled by the system.

Good literature about this can be found here:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html

In this case you have 2 options:

a) Try to configure, setup and install the provider's driver which is
usually a hard task

b) Try with pure linux software raid (called "md" or "dm") to manage raid
levels. There is no need to get a raid card, standard disks and non-raid
setup are enough.

If you don't have a hardware raid card, I would recommend to avoid option a)
and go with md. openSUSE wiki has some tips:

http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_instal..._software_RAID

Greetings,

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Camaleón