On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 10:58 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > The dmraid utility is for recognizing drives configured for raid use and > setting up the kernel to access them correctly. From the information > you provided in your last post, you do not have two drives which can be > or are configured for use as a raid. I asked you before if you had > created a raid volume in the bios utility and you said yes, but you > can't do that if you only have a single sata drive ( you can't raid with > a usb drive ). > > Unless you have more than those two drives that you listed in your last > email, then you aren't going to be setting up a raid any time soon. Do > you have more drives that aren't being recognized at all by linux? > Ok, let me start over, as I said before I posted my full message to this list before and only posted a brief problem this time. Here is a link to the full post .. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-October/msg02838.html notice the misuse of the word to .. it should be two .. sorry The PDC20378 is a 'fake' raid , so it does have a bios but it is a software raid. There are 2 PATA IDE drives attached. I know very well that I can not RAID a single drive. > tlc wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
