Hi there, I'd just like to say that I recently re-installed my system to use the ataraid drivers with my HPT370 card. The system seems to be working just fine, with both Linux and Windows 2000 installed on the same pair of disks. Making the system boot Linux off of the drives was a bit trickier, however. From different bits of information on the list and elsewhere, I've got it working, so if anyone is interested, here's how: (BTW none of this is HPT370 specific, should work with the Promise cards as well) 1) Get some other linux system up and running first! If you've got another drive, that'd be best. I made up a bootable CD with a ataraid-supporting kernel on it (this was 2.4.8-ac7) and the bare minimum of tools. Don't forget to create the special ataraid device files - run the MAKEDEV program from Arjan's site: http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/pdcraid/MAKEDEV 2) From this installation, partition the disk - fdisk /dev/ataraid/d0 worked fine for me, just created one primary partition for linux. 3) Reboot, install Windows 2000 onto another partition on the disk if you want to... 4) Boot your minimal linux installation again, format the /dev/ataraid/d0p2 partition (or whichever it is) and copy across your linux installation onto it. 5) Now the tricky(ish) part. Get the modified version of lilo, from http://www.rug-rats.org/~wilfried/ (follow the V 0.1 link on the left, then there a link to lilo-hacked.tar.gz on the page). This lilo almost works, except it seems to have been writted for an earlier version of the patch, where the ataraid devices had different devices numbers. Here's my patch to geometry.c to make it work: ===== cut here ========================================================= diff -ur lilo-21.7.3/geometry.c /home/ben/lilo-21.7.3/geometry.c --- lilo-21.7.3/geometry.c Fri Apr 27 09:31:32 2001 +++ /home/ben/lilo-21.7.3/geometry.c Sun Aug 19 15:15:22 2001 @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ case MAJOR_I2O+5: case MAJOR_I2O+6: case MAJOR_I2O+7: - case 60: /* fix for raid partitions */ + case 114: /* fix for raid partitions */ geo->device = 0x80+(MINOR(device) >> 6)+(MAJOR(device) == MAJOR_HD ? 0 : last_dev(MAJOR_HD,64)); if (ioctl(fd,HDIO_GETGEO,&hdprm) < 0) ===== cut here ========================================================= 6) Write a valid /etc/lilo.conf. The extra lines that you'll need are: boot=/dev/ataraid/d0 disk=/dev/ataraid/d0 bios=0x80 root=/dev/ataraid/d0p2 (or whichever partition linux is on) 7) Run 'lilo -v' as root, should be no errors. Then reboot! Lilo should run, Linux should boot, the sun will shine, world peace etc etc... Anyway, hope that helps some people. I've put up all the files I've used (and my patched version of LILO) up on a website at http://ataraid.slimyhorror.com/ Good luck! Ben -- <blam!><pok!><blam!><ptwee!><bang!> Take THAT and THAT and THAT and THAT! HA! I warned you, didn't I? Didn't I WARN you? I thought I warned you. I didn't? Oh, sorry.
