All, I believe the below will help Bob - good luck. > hde and hdf are the raid drives. > In the kernel, besides pdc 202xx support (static), I also include Special > UDMA feature (also static), but not the Special FastTrak feature. > Do I also need the "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)"? I have > seen no info on this anywhere, I thought it only applies to scsi cards, or > am I wrong here? > I have created the ataraid devices in dev, but fdisk -l on those devs > reports nothing. > I appreciate all the help I can get with this! I sent this message on the 16-Aug-2002 to this list (titled: Re: pdcraid won't work when using CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE): >> In reply to "pdcraid won't work when using CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE (Martin Stjernholm)". >> I had the same problems with this a well - only I am using RAID 0 - it took me a while to figure this out. >> I posted an item titled "Problems with 2.4.19 Kernel and Promise Fastrak100 RAID Controller (2.4.18 works) (Alan Miles)" on 05-Aug-2002 regarding this. >>>> When I tried to get the Promise PDC20276 working in RAID1 mode on my >>>> Asus A7V333 running Linux 2.4.19, I encountered a problem due to >>>> seemingly confusing docs: >>>> According to the instructions on http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/pdcraid/ataraidhowto.html, >>>> and on "Promise Fasttrack RAID Howto" (http://www.magic-lamp.org/howto/pdc20265-mandrake8.2.phtml), >>>> I set the kernel option CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE (aka "Special FastTrak Feature"). >>>> The kernel wouldn't detect the disks on the RAID >>>> controller. When I disabled that option (no other changes at all), it worked. >>When I set "CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y" to: "# CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE is not set" in the config file and then recompiled the 2.4.19 kernel, >>it solved my problems. Obviously there is something wrong with this code. set "CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y" to: "# CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE is not set" Alan -----Original Message----- From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of ataraid-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: August 27, 2002 13:02 To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Ataraid-list digest, Vol 1 #294 - 3 msgs Send submissions to ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ataraid-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx You can reach the person managing the list at ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ataraid-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: ataraid tuning for 'many files' (Samuel Flory) 2. dual operating sys and FastTrack tx 2000...!!! (Sanjeev Solanki) 3. pdcraid kernel 2.4.19 (Bob Saft) --__--__-- Message: 1 Subject: Re: ataraid tuning for 'many files' From: Samuel Flory <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx Date: 26 Aug 2002 10:15:34 -0700 Reply-To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 11:08, Murty Rompalli wrote: > > Hi > As a general rule, if you have several files distributed under multiple > directories then you have better performance (compared to a case where > several files under one directory). Really you should be using reiserfs for directories with over 100 files. Ext2/3 starts getting really slow. >Additionally, if you use ext3 you can > expect better performance especially if a lot of files are going to be > read and written to. Just make sure you are using latest kernel because > older kernels have some issues with ext3 and/or quotas. > Hope this helps, > > Murty > > On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Brendon Caligari wrote: > > > Having seemingly managed to get the onboard 20276 to work, > > I was wondering what (kernel?) 'tuning' might be necessary to support > > heavy numbers of files on partitions. > > > > /dev/ataraid/d0p2 (/home) is to house a bundle of 'nasty user' > > Maildirs and I am expecting some maximum of 500,000 files > > to be resident. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Brendon > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "Sanjeev Solanki" <sanjeev_solanki@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: dual operating sys and FastTrack tx 2000...!!! Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:51:21 +0800 Reply-To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00BB_01C24DF2.5AA9D860 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable i am using FastTrack 2000 raid card with two matrox HDD's (80 Gig = each). i have already installed win2k and left partition of 30 gig for = redhat linux 7.3. i downloaded the drives from the site. even after = following the procedure mentioned in readme.txt i see whole HDD - 160 = gig inspite of partitioned 30 gig. i stopped installation further, = because that will erase perivious windows installation. how should i = handle this problem?. sanjeev ------=_NextPart_000_00BB_01C24DF2.5AA9D860 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> i am using FastTrack 2000 = raid card=20 with two matrox HDD's (80 Gig each). i have already installed win2k and = left=20 partition of 30 gig for redhat linux 7.3. i downloaded the drives from = the site.=20 even after following the procedure mentioned in readme.txt i see whole=20 HDD - 160 gig inspite of partitioned 30 gig. i stopped installation = further, because that will erase perivious windows installation. how = should i=20 handle this problem?.</FONT> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial = size=3D2>sanjeev</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00BB_01C24DF2.5AA9D860-- --__--__-- Message: 3 From: "Bob Saft" <richard_jonsson@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: pdcraid kernel 2.4.19 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:36:37 +0000 Reply-To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx Smee again, this ataraid thing is driving me mad, can't get it to work, I'm using the 2.4.19 kernel, also tried the 2.4.18 version, with even less luck. /var/log/syslog says: --------- VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21 VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 58 PDC20267: chipset revision 2 PDC20267: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER Mode. ide2: BM-DMA at 0x8800-0x8807, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0x8808-0x880f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:DMA PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 88 PDC20265: chipset revision 2 PDC20265: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit DISABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. PDC20265: FORCING BURST BIT 0x00 -> 0x01 ACTIVE ide4: BM-DMA at 0x6800-0x6807, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio ide5: BM-DMA at 0x6808-0x680f, BIOS settings: hdk:DMA, hdl:pio hda: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-106S 010, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: SONY CD-RW CRX140E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hde: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive hdf: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0xa000-0xa007,0x9802 on irq 10 ---------- I noticed in the syslog above that the controllers report pio and DMA in a to me unlogical way. Don't know if it's part of the problem though. /var/log/messages says: --------- Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:04.1 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:11.0 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:11.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0b.0 hda: 90069840 sectors (46116 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=5606/255/63, UDMA(66) hde: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63, UDMA(100) hdf: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63, UDMA(100) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hde: [PTBL] [9729/255/63] hde1 hde2 hdf: unknown partition table -------- hde and hdf are the raid drives. In the kernel, besides pdc 202xx support (static), I also include Special UDMA feature (also static), but not the Special FastTrak feature. Do I also need the "Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM)"? I have seen no info on this anywhere, I thought it only applies to scsi cards, or am I wrong here? I have created the ataraid devices in dev, but fdisk -l on those devs reports nothing. I appreciate all the help I can get with this! _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list End of Ataraid-list Digest
