Re: Success - 2.4.19 with FastTrak TX2000

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Ühel kenal päeval (pühapäev, 1. september 2002 23:59) kirjutas Barton Hodges:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I was finally successful in getting my Promise FastTrak TX2000
> (PDC20271) to work with Linux 2.4.19 on Redhat 7.3 and I thought
> I'd pass along the secret :)
>
> I used the config file from the Redhat 2.4.18-3 source directory
> (/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3/configs/kernel-2.4.18-i686.config) and did
> not make any modifications to it.

...

> after running "make oldconfig" and doing the kernel compile
> groove, I created a ramdisk:
>
> mkinitrd --preload ataraid --preload pdcraid \
>     /boot/initrd-2.4.19.img 2.4.19

...

> Then based upon the controller information obtained from /proc/pci
> and the instructions here http://www.murty.net/ataraid/existing.html
> I created an "append" line:

As side note, you don't need the initrd and bootloader append line if you 
compile ataraid and pdcraid modules statically into kernel. RAID array is 
automatically detected during boot.

-- 
Martin Lillepuu,
SuSE 8.0 + 2.4.19 / PDC20276 / 2x60G RAID1





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