Hi Aldert,
>
> I see you folks are struggling with the same issue I had for over two
> months. I do not want to discourage you, actually encourage
> you to keep
> posting your progress. It is important that RedHat will get native
> support for this in later releases.
Glad to know I'm not the only one struggling with this! Once I get
it working, I'll post a step by step guide which hopefully will help
other people in the same situation started.
>
> The only solution at this moment is to boot with a hard drive attached
> to your normal IDE channel and compile the new kernel with
> the ATA raid.
> There are many things that can go wrong as you have already
> discovered,
> even with the standard kernels in place..... I have been installing
> Phoebe (the Beta version of 8.1) and it is still not re-solved.
I've managed to get everything working with the Promise supplied
driver - I just don't seem to be able to get the native drivers working
even with new kernel compiles.
I've also tried Phoebe :-(
>
> For maybe all the wrong reasons I started looking for a
> version of Linux
> that does support the Promise 'raid' stuff out of the box. I have
> tested Debian with bf2.4 and no luck. I tried Suse and still no luck,
> all I got from user groups is to go back to previous versions.
I've been tempted by other distributions as well, but I'm pretty
familiar with RedHat and it's pretty much the first time I've truely
become stuck!
>
> Last Friday I took a day off to focus on this issue in my lab. I
> installed a total different version of Linux called FreeBSD that does
> support the controller without going through all this hassle.
You could get in trouble for calling FreeBSD a version of Linux!
> True, it
> is not as clean and does not have the simple rpm installs, but it is
> stable. I have installed Apache and MySql on and backup software.
> Right now this server is sitting in my lab for further testing and is
> holding up perfect. I just wish.... You know... that my
> beloved RedHat
> would support this hardware.
> Looking at the new hardware at www.tomshardware.com I see a lot of
> motherboard manufacturers are using the Promise chipsets.
> This can not
> become an all Windows world!???
It certainly would be nice if the various distributions could support
these sort of controllers out of the box - as you say they are
increasingly common and people do want to use them
Cheers
Mark, London UK
>
>
> Aldert E. van der Laan
> London, Ontario Canada
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alon Weinstein [mailto:alon@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: February 19, 2003 10:37 AM
> To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Can't get Promise PDC20276 to go with ataraid
>
> > My lilo.conf now looks like this.
> >
> >
> > prompt
> .
> .
> > boot=/dev/sda
> .
> .
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20
> > label=2.4.20
> > read-only
> > root=/dev/ataraid/d0p2
> > append="ide2=0xb400,0xb002,9 ide3=0xa800,0xa402,9
> console=ttyS0,57600 console=tty0"
> >
> >
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
> > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
> > label=linux
> > read-only
> > append="ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15
> ide2=0 ide3=0
> ide4=0 ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0 hdc=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/"
>
>
> I can't tell much from the Kernel output. I bet some more experienced
> user
> could help with that.
> Some thoughts --
>
> 1. Login to your computer using your old kernel and do "df -k" -- make
> sure
> your "/" (root partition) is mounted to /dev/sda2 -- if it's
> mounted to
> some
> other "sda", like /dev/sda1 then you should change the "root=" part in
> the
> new kernel's section in lilo.conf to reflect that number -- i.e:
> /dev/sda1 --> "root=/dev/ataraid/d0p1"
>
> 2. Are you sure you compiled the ATARAID module statically,
> i.e not as a
> module? just a long shot.
>
> That's about it -- I'm out of ideas :-)
>
> Good luck.
>
> Alon.
>
>
>
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