Hi all,
Althought I read quite a lot of docs, and googled for a while I'm still
puzzled.
I have several server w/ onboard "Promise Technology, Inc.|PDC20276 IDE"
from NEC. I see you can set in the BIOS to use this as ATA, or RAID. I
interpret that when set as ATA I should be able to reach single disks
while whe set as RAID, I should only see the array set from BIOS, correct?
I also thought that pdc202xx_new should be my module, and in fact it loads
correctly, and I see in the syslog:
Jun 28 22:05:37 argo-cd kernel: PDC20276: IDE controller at PCI slot 02:0c.0
Jun 28 22:05:37 argo-cd kernel: PDC20276: chipset revision 1
Jun 28 22:05:37 argo-cd kernel: PDC20276: not 100%% native mode: will
probe irqs later
Jun 28 22:05:37 argo-cd kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xa800-0xa807, BIOS
settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
Jun 28 22:05:37 argo-cd kernel: ide3: BM-DMA at 0xa808-0xa80f, BIOS
settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
and from here it seems I should see
/dev/hde
/dev/hdf
/dev/hdg
/dev/hdh
What does "will probe irqs later" means?
but how can I fdisk them? I use devfs and no devices appear, I could create
devices bus how should I create them? (I already added all devices
/dev/ataraid/*, thought they are not used here)
If I now try to unload the module, it says:
root@argo-cd root # modprobe -r pdc202xx_new
pdc202xx_new: Device or resource busy
What is it doing?
If I modprobe ataraid it just work but:
root@argo-cd root # modprobe pdcraid
/lib/modules/2.4.21-p3/kernel/drivers/ide/raid/pdcraid.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.4.21-p3/kernel/drivers/ide/raid/pdcraid.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-p3/kernel/drivers/ide/raid/pdcraid.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.21-p3/kernel/drivers/ide/raid/pdcraid.o: insmod pdcraid failed
I don't really understand when I need ataraid/pdraid. Should I need them if
I want to use md-tools linux RAID1 or (as I suspect) I only need it if I
want to use hardware raid?
NOTE: it fails in both cases: ATA or RAID1 settings.
Thanks in advance!
sandro
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