On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 15:28, yoram@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Dear all, > > I have installed Red Hat 7.3 (download of the net) on my home server. > > This is the configuration: > Motherboard: Gigabyte 7DXR+ (with MBFastTrack133 aka PDC20276) > Processor: Athlon > HD: 2 Maxtor 60 Gb DX740L > OS: Red Hat 7.3 > > The PDC20276 is a RAID on ATA from Promise. It is configured as a mirror > raid. > > With the original installation of RH7.3, kernel 2.4.18-3, it could not even > see the PDC20276. So I tried to upgrade (thanks to RH automatic upgrade) to > kernel 2.4.18-5. Now the Promise PDC20276 are recognize and so are the 2 > hard drive on it. The only problem is that they are recognize as two > SEPARATED hard drive rather than a single hard drive as the RAID [mirror] > should take care of the 2nd one. > > PS: I tried to download the last stable version of the kernel 2.4.19 but > still no luck. however I am no specialist in kernel compiling and it is > possbile that I have made mistakes. > > How can I sort this out? Make sure you compile the following ide options: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX=y CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_PDC=y You should now have access to the /dev/atatraid/ devices. Personally I prefer to use the linux md (software raid) driver on the /dev/hd* devices.
