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From: "Jean-Baptiste Vignaud" <vignaud@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: Misc questions
> The 45Go on hdg is normal, but i though that the 2 40Go disk should be
> hidden and that a raid partition should appears.
> I'v tried to create md0 with "mknod /tmp/md0 b 114 0" but it seems
> that the install process do not refresh the list of disks.
> A fdisk on /tmp/md0 works and show a capacity of 80Go.
>
> I'm so close to install RH72 on my raid array :{
> Does someone has succeed in installing rh72 on a raid array ?
>
> Thanks for support;
>
> Jean-Baptiste Vignaud
A few of us have also made working driver disks for both HPT370 and Promise
FastTrak, but we got stuck at the partitioning stage because anaconda does
not seem to recognize that the kernel modules are loaded, and the existence
of the /dev/ataraid/* devices. If you are using the HPT370 controller md0
is not the array you are thinking of, that is the Linux native software RAID
array. For these reasons I'm afraid it is not possible to install directly
onto an ATA RAID array with RH7.2 without editing the CD itself. I have got
a working RH7.2 system on FastTrak by installing onto a seperate non-RAID
hard drive, compiling a new monolithic kernel (to avoid initrd hassles) and
copying everything to the FastTrak array. It then boots off of the
/dev/ataraid/d0 device just fine with a patched LILO or GRUB, although I
could never get GRUB to work properly.
If you are using only Linux on your computer, consider using the native md0
software array. It has greater performance than the HPT370 and FastTrak
controllers, and it works out-of-the-box. I went through the trouble of
installing it onto my FastTrak because I wanted dual boot with RH 7.2 and
Windows 2000 on the same RAID array. This is not possible with both Linux
and Windows software RAID on the same disks.
