Well I finally discovered the problem. When I enable the Promise setting in the bios, it reverses the ide interface numbers. i.e.... without with ide1 ide3 (VIA) ide2 ide4 (VIA) ide3 ide1 (promise fasttrak100 lite) ide4 ide2 (promise fasttrak100 lite) SO....Moving the boot drive to the promise ide controler fixed the problem. I have decided to stick with the software raid for now. Will be speed of the raid device (promise raid) be faster than raid-1 using software raid (raidtools)? Vernon Fort -----Original Message----- From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 3:35 AM To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Promise PDC20265R FastTrak100-lite On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:45:08PM -0500, Vernon Fort wrote: > System Specs: > Soyo K7V Dragon VIA KT266 > ide-0 = ata/66 maxtor > ide-1 = cdrom > ide-3 = IBM Deskstar 60GB > ide-4 = IBM Deskstar 60GB > > Redhat 7.1 (with latest patches) > Kernel 2.4.10 with patch-to-2.4.10 > configured kernel with promise settings as suggested > > Switched the jumper to enable RAID1 - configure/build the raid - enable the > raid in the bios > > I am NOT booting of the RAID1 device - booting off ide-0 > > When I enable the bios Promise raid setting, I get a kernel panic > > NET4: Unix Domain Sockets.... > ds: no socket drivers loaded > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 > VFS: mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly > Warning: unable to open inital console > Kernel Panic: no init found.... > > The really odd thing is the root filesystem is ext2, not reiserfs - the > drives for the raid ARE reiserfs. This makes me think the system is > attempting to boot of the raid1. If I just disable the bios setting, the > system boots fine. Any ideas or suggestions. > > FYI - this will be a production system - should I use software raid1 until > the promise raid1 drivers mature? The drivers are still experimental; software raid1 is much more mature... for production servers I would recommend md raid1. (fasttrak is also software raid, just done slightly different) _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.281 / Virus Database: 149 - Release Date: 9/18/2001 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.281 / Virus Database: 149 - Release Date: 9/18/2001
