Hi, Arjan! /Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:46:53 -0500/ you wrote: >> When I connect IDE drives to 'usual' (not raid) chanels of motherboard >> and try to boot linux kernel I have 2 problems: >> >> 1. Kernel detects ataraid (I think it shouldn't on this chanel): >> >> ataraid/d0: ataraid/d0p1 ataraid/d0p2 ataraid/d0p3 >> Drive 0 is 19623 Mb (34 / 0) >> Drive 1 is 19623 Mb (34 / 64) >> Raid0 array consists of 2 drives. >> AvdV> Well you have to remember that this is software raid. And you have a valid AvdV> raid superblock on your disks, so it's just raid as far as the driver is AvdV> converned. Is this a bug? I tend to think not. It would mean that if your AvdV> controller dies and you move your disks to another machine, you would no AvdV> longer be able to get to your data. For software raid, that's not really AvdV> acceptable....... I just want to have usual ide drives (not raid). I thought it is possible by plugging them into 'non-raid' channels. FastTrack bios says "No array is detected" but pdcraid driver detects the array. I think there is some discrepancy here. Is it impossible to have both array and usual drives on the same box ? And what about my fix. Is it right ? -- Best regards, Ed V. Bartosh
