Most of these "hardware" raid cards do not have an I/O processor, which (which is the definition of "hardware" raid). They have a BIOS which translates and allows the RAID to be booted into the target OS. Once in the target OS, their specific driver takes over the RAID task (so RAID is part of the driver instead of some higher level algorithm).
You might try the ataraid drivers and see if your's is supported. The only advantage you get with these types of cards is that you can boot multiple OS'es with the same layout on the disk.
Thanks
-steve
tk Voice wrote:
I was under the impression that these EIDE RAID cards were "hardware RAID" as I see it this seems to just be a 2-Channel IDE controller That I will have to set up as MD (Software RAID).
Has anyone got one of these working as a hardware RAID controller under LINUX ?
Does anyone have any hints you can give me to get this working without using "Software RAID" ?
Here are the details of this controller:
EIO (Extreme IO) is a division of InnoVISION (www.ivmm.com)
They have a ATA RAID solution: "EIO AP-1680 ATA133 RAID PCI Controller"
It can be viewed here: http://www.ivmm.com/eio/products_ap1680.html
Which they claim is LINUX compatible
It is based on Silicon Image's "Sil 0680 Ultra ATA133" chipset.
Silicon Image "Sil 0680" chipset link is:
http://siimage.cubik.com/products/sii0680.asp
The Driver for this chipset is in the kernel source:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD680
Output from lspci -vvv is this:
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00:09.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc: Unknown device 0680 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Unknown device 1771:1680
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32, cache line size 01
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12
Region 0: I/O ports at a000 [size=8]
Region 1: I/O ports at a400 [size=4]
Region 2: I/O ports at a800 [size=8]
Region 3: I/O ports at ac00 [size=4]
Region 4: I/O ports at b000 [size=16]
Region 5: Memory at df001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
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I have attached two(2) 40GB drives to this card one on each ide channel both set as Master. I went into the controllers BIOS and made configuration changes to reflect RAID 1 and built the set adding both drives to it. Everything looks fine a boot time. The controllers BIOS states two drives found combined as RAID 1 as 0x80. Under Window 98 I only see one drive. Which is what I would expect.
But after compiling these drivers into my LINUX kernel the system sees my drives as 2 separate disks (I have an ATAPI CDROM drive on Motherboard's 2nd-IDE channel) Here are my messages at boot time:
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VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x9000-0x9007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x9008-0x900f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:09.0
CMD680: chipset revision 2
CMD680: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb000-0xb007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xb008-0xb00f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hdd: CD-ROM 56X/AKH, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: WDC WD400AB-00BVA0, ATA DISK drive
hdg: WDC WD400AB-00BVA0, ATA DISK drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xa000-0xa007,0xa402 on irq 12
ide3 at 0xa800-0xa807,0xac02 on irq 12
blk: queue c02c766c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hde: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77545/16/63, UDMA(100)
blk: queue c02c79d0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdg: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77545/16/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
hde: [PTBL] [4865/255/63] hde1 hde2 hde3
hdg: [PTBL] [4865/255/63] hdg1 hdg2 hdg3
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Thanks
Peter
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