Hi Peter, it is not exactly controller (add-in card) - it is integrated chipset of ASUS A7V motherboard with patched _BIOS_ to being able to boot from RAID and use it under other supported systems (Windows perhaps) and have redundancy for system boot as well too. I am not using patched dmraid (I just pointed on that post in case if my problem has same roots). And as I said, it is working for me fine, but I am loosing here 100G of redundant disk space, which is a bit disappointing ;-). Regards, Alex On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 02:05 -0500, Peter Bense wrote: > Alex, > > I have a fair bit of experience installing these controllers in Gentoo. > Your problem description is pretty vague, however. > > Out of curiousity, why are you using dmraid? What is it that is > 'patched'? Please elaborate. > > I just build a new kernel in Gentoo with PDC support in my installs. (I > have 3 systems that I've configured with Promise cards in Gentoo...) > > ./peter > > Peter T. Bense - Teradata Certified Professional > (ptbense@xxxxxxxxxx) - 803-777-9476 > Database Administrator/Webmaster > Prevention Research Center > University of South Carolina > >>> alxsey@xxxxxxxxxxx 03/11/05 12:22 AM >>> > Hi, > > being new to this list and to dmraid, I could not be so sure is my > problem is what Paul Moore describes here > (https://www.redhat.com/archives/ataraid-list/2005-February/msg00004.html > - Subject: Re: Some strange behavior with Promise Fasttrak). > > I am using dmraid (rc5) within Gentoo (using dmraid initrd) on Promise > integrated PDC20265 controller with patched for RAID support BIOS. It > works pretty well (although I had no chance to check raid1 , which I am > using, functionality). There is only problem that from my two 200G hard > drives I have acceseble 100G only (remember, this is RAID1, so I have to > have 200G). dmraid rc6 looks like does not helps here too much, but for > me even makes things worse - it is changing mapped set name and as far > as I can tell, fdisk show me same 100G, and I have only 3 devices > in /dev/mapper instead of 5 I'm having with rc5. > > Is there any advice for my case or I am too unclear here? > > Regards, > Alex >
