I have a Gigabyte MB with the MBFastTrak133 Lite chipset on it. While I normally opt for just using the linux software RAID or LVM, this is the box that I was given to work with.
Now I can mount the array using the Promise drivers with the original RH 7.3 kernel but I have two issues with that. 1. I prefer to update my kernels manually to ensure that they are running only what they need. 2. The performance with the Promise drivers seems to fall short compared to the linux software RAID on a box of lesser power! So, I have been trying to instead of mounting the array just get native access to the drives themselves via IDE channels but this document: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO.html#DETERMINE while helpful has not seemed to do the trick for me. For the record here is the info from my /proc/pci file: Bus 2, device 10, function 0: RAID bus controller: PCI device 1095:3112 (CMD Technology Inc) (rev 2). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xa400 [0xa407]. I/O at 0xa800 [0xa803]. I/O at 0xac00 [0xac07]. I/O at 0xb000 [0xb003]. I/O at 0xb400 [0xb40f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf6024000 [0xf60241ff]. Bus 2, device 12, function 0: RAID bus controller: PCI device 105a:5275 (Promise Technology, Inc.) (rev 1). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=18. I/O at 0xb800 [0xb807]. I/O at 0xbc00 [0xbc03]. I/O at 0xc000 [0xc007]. I/O at 0xc400 [0xc403]. I/O at 0xc800 [0xc80f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf6020000 [0xf6023fff]. I'm not opposed to trying the standard kernels FastTrak driver but not only can I not figure out which device /dev/d0p0 ?!? to use I have also read in a few other threads that it might be broken in 2.4.21 anyway. So, does anyone know of any solutions for this or am I stuck with the Promise binary's? Thanks in advance. --Marcus __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
