I just found a current patch for libata that looks like it might solve the problem ... I'll let you know On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 10:32 -0500, tlc wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 10:20 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > > So where do you think your hardware raid is? I don't see one there. > > You showed two drives, one that is partitioned using LVM, and one that > > you said is an external USB drive which has one large partition on it. > > > > If you had setup a hardware raid in your bios, then sda and sdb should > > be the two drives in the raid, and dmraid would create a /dev/mapper > > device to glue the two together, but you don't appear to have two disks > > to have in a raid. > > > The on board PDC20378 is not a true hardware RAID. But, yeah this is the > problem. There is no device created. The controller is supported and has > a driver, and supposedly has had a driver since the 2.4 kernel. The > system detects the card loads the driver but can not find any devices. I > am not expecting to find one RAID device created, I know its a software > RAID controller ( basically ) I don't care, I just want to be able to > use the controller. > > It looks like the driver is only recognizing the SATA port on the > controller and not the PATA port. You can use either or. So it sees the > controller but no attached devices. > > > > tlc wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:18 -0500, James Olson wrote: > > >> What is the output of # fdisk -l > > > [root@tlacicero ~]# fdisk -l > > > > > > Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes <----- my sata boot drive > > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > > > /dev/sda2 14 9726 78019672+ 8e Linux LVM > > > > > > Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes <------ hotplug USB portable > > > 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10337 cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes > > > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > /dev/sdb1 1 10337 78147688+ 83 Linux > > > > > > > > >> and # dmsetup ls > > > VolGroup00-LogVol01 (253, 1) > > > VolGroup00-LogVol00 (253, 0) > > > > > > > > >> and # dmraid -b > > > /dev/sda: 156250000 total, "3JVC1EKG" > > > /dev/sdb: 156301488 total, " " > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the responses, I do appreciate it. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
