K9a2 Platinum Raid Driver For Mac

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  1. Partial success: MSI K9A2 Platinum. Well, at long last, I'd like to report a partial success on the K9A2 Platinum. My machine has 4 gigs of RAM, an ATI 4850 PCI video card, and a Phenom 9950 @ 2.6 ghz. The internal DVD drive is IDE, the 1 gig internal hard disk is a 1 TB WD on SATA set to ACHI.
  2. Jun 27, 2011  Well, at long last, I'd like to report a partial success on the K9A2 Platinum. My machine has 4 gigs of RAM, an ATI 4850 PCI video card, and a Phenom 9950 @ 2.6 ghz. The internal DVD drive is IDE, the 1 gig internal hard disk is a 1 TB WD on SATA set to ACHI.

Okay, ive entered the recovery tools menu, now it says i can either recover it via system image, or use recovery tools to try and fix the problem. My OS isnt listed, so it's asking me to load drivers (RAID again, eh), what should i do and which drivers should i load.

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1st, welcome to LQ. I hope you both get & give good answers here.
Before I start on what I found about your problem, I'd like to make 2 suggestions about what to post:
1. Post links to mfr.'s h/w info. -- it will save prospective helpers time & thus make it easier (read more likely) to try to help.
2. You are expected to try to solve your problem yourself before you post, Google, Google Linux, & searching LQ are good ways to this. If you then posted your searches, your helpers would get up to speed on your problem (& therefore be more likely to try to help) much quicker, not to mention know that you did already try to figure it out on your own.
Links
  1. Googling your mobo:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=MSI+K9A2+Platinum
  2. yeilds:
    http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?f...&prod_no=1332#
  3. Googling your chip:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=Promise+PDC42819
    yeilds nothing directly useful, i.e. info. on the chip itself
  4. but yeilds this clue:
    http://www.digital-daily.com/motherboard/msi_abit_am2
    http://www.digital-daily.com/motherb...abit_am2/print
    ' a rather expensive Promise PDC42819 chip (for comparison, the expansion card Promise FastTrak TX2650 based on this chip costs about 80$).'
    A comparison review, this also includes a good description of the board.
  5. Another good description/review (of the mobo):
    http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles...6&id=2423&pg=3
  6. Googling the Promise website for the chip:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=site%....com/+PDC42819
    'Your search - site:www.promise.com/ PDC42819 - did not match any documents.'
    nor does a serch AT www.promise.com produce anthing useful.
  7. Googling that card:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=Promise+FastTrak+TX2650
  8. The card itself:
    http://www.promise.com/product/produ...product_id=191
    1. Downloads, incl. Drivers:
      http://www.promise.com/support/downl...ory=all&os=100
    2. Press Release:
      http://www.promise.com/company/press...RES20080128001
      'server platforms running all popular Linux distributions'
      'Promise's FastTrak TX offerings are software-based SAS RAID cards'
    3. Compatibility List - PDF as HTML:
      http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache...t-20070906.pdf
      'Linux driver 1.1.0.3'
    4. Enlarged picture:
      http://www.promise.com/upload/product/FXTX4650.JPG
      shows your chip.

Good News
K9a2 Platinum Raid Driver For MacIt sounds like there is a Linux driver.
Bad News
It sounds like there is a Linux driver;

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& that means you are probably dealing w/ 'fake RAID', see the Wikipedia RAID article or search LQ for 'fake RAID'.

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Good News

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Most 'fake RAID' chips can be used as plain multi-disk controllers for Linux software RAID, which is considered very good.