Sandro Dentella wrote:
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?
#1)The promise controller doesn't do hardware raid. All raid occurs in the driver. The only hardware support is some bios code that allows you to boot off a raid 0 array.
#2)You don't want any promise raid configured for linux md raid.
#3)Linux software raid is better than promise's raid driver.
NOTE: it fails in both cases: ATA or RAID1 settings.
Thanks in advance!
sandro *:-)
-- Once you have their hardware. Never give it back. (The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
