Thanks - since the box isn't that critical I've just fed in the Centos-3 disks again, scrubbed the boot disk and reinstalled the OS - as there were two processors in situ it has installed the SMP kernel. Once this was done I just did a 'make' on the IT8212 drivers source code and then modprobe/insmodded it and it's working fine - the two 160GB disks are resyncing now. I understand from some forum posts I found elsewhere that IT8212 drivers will be/are native to the latest 2.6 kernels so maybe things will be easier in the future. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Hinton Sent: 08 March 2005 15:29 To: CentOS discussion and information list Subject: Re: [Centos] Fun with RAID (Again!) Nigel Kendrick wrote: >Ok, so I'm playing with an IT8212 dual channel IDE controller in an old >Dell PowerEdge 1300. I managed to compile the drivers and install them >as a module with mkinitrd and everything worked fine. > > > I made the discovery on an old test Compaq 3000R 300mHtz box, the LVM and its compaq raid will not work. I normally do my own drive setup, but figured I'd just throw 4.0 on this box to find any issues. It made it through some of the init scripts... I don't remember exactly where, but I think it crashed when looking for a kernel, which would have been about Grub time. Seems some changes have been made to LVM... might be worth a shot if your doing this. John Hinton _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos