----- Original Message -----
From: "Helge Lenz" <h.lenz@xxxxxx>
To: <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: RH 7.2
> Warren Togami wrote:
>
> >How difficult would it be to use the same process to make a driver disk
for
> >Promise? Do you know where I can find documentation on making a driver
> >disk?
> >
> It is not very hard, the trickiest way was to build the modules.cgz,
> because I couldn´t find any informations about that, but it is easy if
> you know how to do it...
> modinfo: just write what you want...
> modules.dep: "pdcraid: ataraid" (not very tricky, eh???)
> pcitable: I don´t know if you realy need this, but I took the values
> from /proc/pci and put it in there. Should be no problem to find the
> values for your promise controller, I just deinstalled my...
> rhdd-6.1: no idea what is in here, I just copied it from the closed
<SNIP>
Ok, I successfully made a driver disk that the installer recognizes (below).
I figured that it wouldn't hurt to put both Promise and HPT370 on the same
disk, so I did so. Unfortunately, Anaconda doesn't recognize ataraid
devices. Did you figure a way to get past this in the installer, install
GRUB and make a working system?
modules.cgz contains ataraid.o, pdcraid.o, hptraid.o from
kernel-2.4.7-10.i386.rpm in /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/
$ ls -l
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112 Oct 22 22:59 modinfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7755 Oct 22 22:58 modules.cgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34 Oct 22 23:00 modules.dep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 258 Oct 22 23:00 pcitable
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21 Oct 22 12:29 rhdd-6.1
$ cat modinfo
Version 0
pdcraid
scsi
"Promise FastTrak RAID Controller"
hptraid
scsi
"HPT370 UDMA/ATA100 RAID Controller"
$ cat modules.dep
pdcraid: ataraid
hptraid: ataraid
$ cat pcitable
0x105a 0x4d38 "pdcraid" "Promise|FastTrak 66 "
0x105a 0x0d30 "pdcraid" "Promise|FastTrak 100"
0x105a 0x4d30 "pdcraid" "Promise|FastTrak 100"
0x105a 0x6268 "pdcraid" "Promise|FastTrak 100 TX2"
0x1103 0x0004 "hptraid" "HPT370 UDMA/ATA100 RAID Controller"
This is not a definitive list of FastTrak controllers. Eric, can you read
"/proc/pci" on your system and tell me the PCI device address for your
FastTrak controller? It would say "Foobar controller: PCI device
xxxx:xxxx".
