Yoram,
I've got a pretty similar system (same mobo, Athlon XP, 2xMaxtor 40GB
DX740L, SuSE 8.0) running 2.4.19rc-1 and it's fine. I'll update to
2.4.19 when I can get physical access to the machine.
You didn't say if you tried mounting as /dev/ataraid/d0{p1,p2,p3,p4} or
not. On my machine, the drives are seen under /dev/hde /dev/hdg, but
ALSO under /dev/ataraid/d0 - I had to edit /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf
to deal with this properly, and only access the array through
/dev/ataraid.
The 2.4.18 kernel should handle your chip ok, but probably won't enable
DMA, so disk performance will be quite bad, but 2.4.19 fixes this. You
will also most likely need to make a new initrd image, in order to load
the ataraid and pdcraid modules needed to access the root filesystem.
Good luck :-)
Richard.
On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 10:28, 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?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Yoram
