On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 10:57:46PM +0000, mlist@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Arjan van de Ven writes: > > > Well never. Since the hardware will need to be supported > > by the ide promise lowlevel driver (which it is in > > recent kernels); pdcraid is just the software raid on top of the > > hardware layer. > > > > Okay, maybe I'm missing something here... > > I've tried 2.4.18 - 2.4.19-pre10 and have not been able to get any kernel to > recognize/boot "/dev/ataraid/d0p3". Does 2.4.19-pre10 have the latest Andre Hedrick patches for the promise 133 support ? You may need to download them separatly (http://www.linux-ide.org) or use the -ac patch > However things work fine if I stick to > the redhat 2.4.7-10 kernel and use ft.o and "/dev/sda3". I for one do not > like or accept being limited in what kernel with what options I can run, > therefore I'd like to be able to use something else. Right now, I feel my > best option is to forget about ataraid/pdcraid, disable the onboard promise > controller on my Asus A7V333 and run LinuxRAID. Or, as I started off with, > Am I missing something here? LinuxRAID and pdcraid (and ft.o) are both software raid...
