I'm setting up a new machine with a pair of IDE drives connected to HPT 370 controller. I defined a RAID-1 array using the HPT370 bios setting utility. Description - hard: motherboard Abit ST6-RAID, HPT370, 2 identical hard disks as primary/secondary master on ide3/ide4 - bios: Primary Master: Mirror (Raid 1) for Array #0 UDMA 5 78150 BOOT Primary Slave: No drive Secondary Master: Mirror (Raid 1) for Array #0 UDMA 5 78150 HIDDEEN Secondary Slave: No drive - os: Linux RedHat 7.1 & kernel 2.4.17 with compilation option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_HPT=y Lilo: ... root=/dev/hde10 ... During system booting i see following ... ataraid/d0: ataraid/d0p1 ataraid/d0p2 ataraid/d0p3 ataraid/d0p4 <> Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01 Drive 0 is 76319 Mb Drive 6 is 76319 Mb Raid array consists of 2 drivers ... Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 21:0a ... And system stop Booting with option root=/dev/atarad/d0p1 ro (or root=/dev/ataraid/d0p10 ro) and etc - no effect Any hints? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
