I don't know what this Gentoo stuff is, but I have the same chip, though
on a PCI-card and I wish to run this in RAID1 too... I've built a
standard kernel with Promise IDE support in it and with IDE RAID support
for the Fasttrack and, on the correct motherboard, it seems to work with
RAID1... ...and it reports the 0.03BETA too... ...so are you sure it
isn't in the standard kernel yet???
Arjan
James Morle wrote:
Thilo,
I tried it. Amazing!
So who owns this driver? I noticed it is called 0.03BETA - it doesn't
instill a great deal of confidence in me, I must admit...
Though I like the Gentoo stuff, and will probably install it on my
workstation, I would prefer to migrate this server slowly through the
RedHat cycle, until time to do a major rehack. Where do I get this
driver for RedHat or generic kernels?
Many thanks
James
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-----Original Message-----
From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thilo Bangert
Sent: 12 March 2002 08:41
To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Serviceable RAID-1?
On Tuesday, 12. March 2002 01:13, you wrote:
Hi Thilo,
Are you saying that your ataraid driver supports RAID-1?!
yes - try the gentoo bootcd!
load the ataraid driver: # modprobe ataraid
load the pdcraid driver: # modprobe pdcraid
i have two IBM 60 GB each running master on the primary and
secondary
promise controller - setup to do raid 1.
afterloading the drivers you can access the raid array from
/dev/ataraid/disc0/disc
NB.:gentoo is running devfsd
# fdisk /dev/ataraid/disc0/disc
to make partitions which the would be at
/dev/ataraid/disc0/partx
where x is a number
It may not
have been clear, because I only mention the actual RAID
level in the
subject line. I do indeed have 4 IDE ports, but due to the
inability
of IDE to have more than one outstanding I/O per bus, I
prefer only to
use one device per bus. Therefore, I would like to use the Promise
channels to run software raid from.
Cheers
James
-----Original Message-----
From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thilo Bangert
Sent: 11 March 2002 23:39
To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Serviceable RAID-1?
On Monday, 11. March 2002 22:25, you wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
I'm new to the list, but not to the misery of trying to run a
Linux server with Promise "RAID" controllers! I have the
equivalent of a Fastrak100TX2 in the form of a 20267
embedded chip
on the
mobo. I've
now tired of not being able to get off RH 7.1 or even
build my own
kernels, and need to take some action for the sake of my sanity!
hhm, i have asus TUSL2 with promise chipset - doing ataraid just
fine. maybe you want to try out the gentoo boot cd -
works right of
it! http://www.gentoo.org
So, I'm running a pair of identical IDE drives in
RAID-1 with the
binary fte.o driver from Promise, and would like to move to
a software
raid solution with the kernel md devices. I did not
realize until
I tried it, but it would appear that I cannot just make this
controller
a standard IDE controller. If I disable the RAID on the
motherboard,
it totally disables it - no IDE on those ports at all.
you should have 4 ide ports on your mainboard right? if
want to do
pure software raid then you could settle for the onboard
controller. i don't
hink it differs that much performance wise... (?)
I'm assuming, then, that I need to make these devices JBOD,
but have
them only spanning themselves? If I make this change,
does anybody
know the following:
a) Does the Fastbuild utility mess with my data at all, or
will each
drive retain a complete copy of all the data?
b) How do these devices show up in Linux? What sort of
driver do I
need? c) If I convert one drive to JBOD, and leave the
other one
'free', presumably the 'free' one will serve as a good
backup until I
prove the booting?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
Many thanks
James
sorry - if this was not what you were looking for
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