If you want just ATA/SATA support of single drives, that will work.
The RAID functionality will never work, because it is 100% software-based
(the 16-bit BIOS setup is just for boot-time).
I call this "FRAID" and it is not hardware RAID (it adds *0* hardware).
Any drivers will be proprietary and not open source, because they
contain RAID code licensed from a 3rd party that is not GPL (and
never will be, because it is the core IP of that 3rd party and the
lifeblood of their business).
There are independent, clean room GPL drivers (ataraid + pdcraid),
but they are likely to corrupt your volume -- especially on newer
FRAID BIOSes that may change the organization.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bogdan Nicolescu <bo2k2@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: May 18, 2005 3:31 PM
To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Installing CentOS on RAID PATA not SATA - A8V
I'm trying to install CentOS 4 on an A8V on the
PATA/Raid drives on the Promise controller. The
Promise controller is recognized (sata_promise), but
the PATA drives are not recognized. Base on this
thread
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=147303
it seems that there is a patch which was merged in
2.6.11 to get pata working.
Any ideas how to proceed?
Thanks in advance
Regards
Bogdan
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