On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 09:47, yoram@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Would this work this 2.4.18 or should I compile the not yet released 2.4.19? > Well it depends on the chipset. I'm not sure 2.4.18 will support your chipset. It does support the older ones, but not some the newer ones. I really recommend the ac (Alan Cox) tree. ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/2.4.19/patch-2.4.19-ac4.bz2 -cp -a linux-2.4.19 linux-2.4.19-ac4 -cd linux-2.4.19-ac4 -bzcat ../patch-2.4.19-ac4.bz2 |patch -p 1 -make mrproper -cp ../linux-2.4/configs/{your config file} (Use either kernel-2.4.18-athlon-smp.config or kernel-2.4.18-athlon.config) -make oldconfig (Only do this if you have an old config file, or did the above step. You will have to configure only the option that are new.) -make (menuconfig or xconfig) -go to the ide section find and turn on the following options -PDC fastrak feature -ataraid -atatraid PDC support > Thanks again. > > Yoram > > PS: Not only related to this subject, where can I find a description of what > means what in the .config file? > Use one of the config tools and hit help. (make menu/xconfig) Of course some option have no help. All the PDC relate ones have help entries. > -----Original Message----- > From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of yoram@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: 04 August 2002 23:29 > To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: ATA RAID Promise PDC20276 > > > 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? > > Thanks in advance
