i just went through the whole procedure of getting rh9 to work with right that chipset. there is the "linux ata raid howto" wich explains setting up redhat with a very similar (or same?) promise controller: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO/ following that document, you will need newer drivers for the fasttrack, wich can be found here: http://members.rogers.com/sith.warrior/ after beeing new to raid and after some investigations, i learned, that this cheesy controller does nothing but software-raid. in other words, it is more or less an ide-controller with a simple function to watch over the state of the disks, nothing more. well, linux can do that job alone with its native software-raid.. also i had the installation working with the above linked driver and when installing it again (final install, i thought..) i got weird timeeouts and disk-related kernel-messages, so i decided to use the internal raid, wich worked like a charm out of the box.. in my opinion you should really try and put your windows-date alsewhere for a while and get a reliable system together using linux softraid. if you decide not to and go with the howto above, here might be some usefull hints: after the installation is done edit /etc/fstab and exchange the "labels" with the real device-names. i ran into booting-trouble here, because redhat found "doubled labels" (hdeX, hdgX, and sdX, i guess). also edit /etc/lilo.conf and do the same here whenre it sais "root=label=/" or something. elsewhere i was told to stick with grub and doing so, i found the boot-sector installed on one disc only. anfter changing to lilo i could write it onto the actual raid-device, wich i can boot from, thx to the promise-controller. this i very nice, if one disk should fail.. i guess there are ways to boot grub like that as well, but i didn't find the time to figure. hope i could help a bit and i wasn't too wrong in some explanations.. /jc > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]Im Auftrag von Scott Kesecki > Gesendet: Freitag, 16. Mai 2003 18:50 > An: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Betreff: PDC20276 & Installing Redhat 9 > > > I have a asus a7v333 MB which has the PDC20276 > on-board raid controller and I'm having problems > getting the RH install program to recognize my raid 0 > array. I've tried a few things > > 1) Using what ever drivers come on RH9 CD. The > install program did not see my raid array and it > wanted to reformat both of my HD's > 2) I've downloaded the TX2000 raid drivers from > promise's web site and followed the directions in the > read me. When I did this, the the install program > didn't even see my hd's > 3) I tried to follow Murty's How to to find my > append line but I couldn't find anything about my raid > controller in /proc/pci so I couldn't find out what my > append line shoud be. > > Unfortunately my raid 0 drives have Windoze data on > there that I need to keep so reformatting my array is > not possible at this point. Can any of you give me > some hints/help that might assist me in getting RH9 > installed. Thanks > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >
