Sagi Bashari wrote:
On 18/10/2002 17:21, Samuel Flory wrote:
Sagi Bashari wrote:
Hello,
I just bought a Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW+ motherboard with onboard Promise
PDC 20276 RAID Controller.
I have 2 WD 120GB HDDs that I would like to setup in RAID1. The OS
is RedHat 7.3.
I managed to install it using the drivers provided in Promise's
site. After the installation I tried to upgrade the kernel using
up2date and it stopped working.
I tried to use the ataraid drivers but had no luck loading the
pdcraid driver.
After reading that this RAID card is actually doing software RAID I
decided that it is probably better to use the Linux MD driver instead.
I switched the RAID mode to ATA in the bios. The RedHat installation
is not detecting the HDDs. If I try to use the Promise driver disk
it is detecting it as RAID device and not ATA like I want it to.
How can I make it detect the HDDs as normal devices?
You can check in the bios and see if you can revert to std ide
controller. Some mobos can do this. Another thing to try would be
RH8.0 which should see the ide drives as just drives.
I know, thats what I did. The bios had "RAID" option and "ATA". I
choosed ATA. RedHat 7.3 is not detecting it.
I don't want to use 8.0 because it's a major release and I rather not
use it on production servers.
I hear you there. I still have 6.0 flash backs. The only other
options I see would be to install using a custom kernel, use a distro
that correctly supports the promise chipset, or use the ft module for
installation and switch to a kernel with native support. The option
you need turned on in the kernel is CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE (aka fasttrak
feature).
