I have an HPT 370A running under Mandrake 9.0, however it's not the boot or root partition, but I do have a swap and an ext3 partition. At first I used the Highpoint Tech drivers (the open source ones from their site you have to compile). However I now use the built-in ataraid/hptraid modules. The big difference is these are not SCSI emulation like the Highpoint Tech ones, and the drives appear under /dev/ataraid/d0p1 (for raid disk 0 partition 1) instead of /dev/sda1. I load the ataraid and hptraid modules with an initrd so I have the swap partition available when it's turned on. Since they are in the initrd image, they automatically get loaded at boot time. So it should be fairly easy to get a root partition in RAID. The problem I had during my last installation (I've done it several times) was even that though you can load ataraid during setup, hptraid isn't listed. I've added these modules to an ext2 formatted floppy, but haven't tried to reinstall it. Mainly because I'm also trying to get the install to recognize my USB Wireless Lan device during installation. David Leffler -----Original Message----- From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dragan Toroman Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 05:03 To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Mandrake 9.0 and HPT370 help Well, I have read lots of info on HPT raid0 on various lists, but it doesn't seem to be put together giving simple complete installation instructions :) And from the number of posts on the lists concerning this problem I see that lots of people are really pi@@ed off... Reading the replies, there is lots of different instructions for setting it up under Linux, but none of that encouraged me to try, really :) I used to run multi-boot Linux and Win *-p (me + xp) on HPT. Recently, I've decided to try HPT370 stripe and now I have 2 Maxtor 60GB 7200rpm drives in Raid0 mode. (I still have my old DTLA-IBM305030 here somewhere, (but I will have to give it away soon) if I need if to install everything I need... So, for reasons of multi-platform development, I need multi-boot. And I need the raid0 speed-up capabilities because I develop some video-capturing software under Win... And of course, I would like to have my Linux running ;o) as I used to for years. I have Abit ST-6RAID motherboard (with most recent bios update - hpt bios rev.2.0.1024). It works fine under all Windows :-| but you all know that. I would like to install Mandrake 9.0 (kernel 2.4.19) on my array with multi-boot and I want to be able to see my Win partitions. Is it to hard to explain really? I know HighPoint released a binary driver for RH7.3 and OpenSource driver to... Does anybody know is it possible to use it under Mandrake 9.0? (and how :)) It would be nice if someone could give complete instalation procedure... from instalation to configuring... Best Regards, Toroman toroman@xxxxxx toroman@xxxxxxxxx toroman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ Besplatan email za SVE - ime@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - http://www.webmail.co.yu _____________________________________________________________ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get you@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx w/No Ads, 6MB, POP & more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
