Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

2003-09-07 Thread Darryl Barlow
Thank you to those who replied. I've decided to adopt Henrique's suggestion and go with Software Raid. There seems to be little point in persevering with the onboard chip if it does not offer better performance. I've copied everything over to hda1, modified lilo.conf and fstab and verified

Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > If your RAID HW controller was a top-notch one, with lots of buffers and a > proper HW engine... maybe. But el-cheap-o Promise PDC20265 is worth very > little (I have an Asus A7V with a PDC20265. I talk from experience). > > Th

Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

2003-09-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 06 Sep 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Don't use PDC20265 RAID. Instead, use software RAID1. It is much faster. > > And safer, probably. > > How is that possible? The point of the hardware RAID is to hide the For reading operations, the OS can do simultaneous reads of different data fro

Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Sun, 07 Sep 2003, Darryl Barlow wrote: > > controllers, but using the ide=reverse option does not help. Any ideas > > welcome. > > Don't use PDC20265 RAID. Instead, use software RAID1. It is much faster. > And safer, probably.

[LONG] Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

2003-09-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Darryl Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I have this working well using the 2.4.18bf24 kernel. However, it fails on > both 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 kernels with the message unable to mount root fs. > This is the case even when the later kernels are compiled with the same > options as the w

Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

2003-09-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 07 Sep 2003, Darryl Barlow wrote: > controllers, but using the ide=reverse option does not help. Any ideas > welcome. Don't use PDC20265 RAID. Instead, use software RAID1. It is much faster. And safer, probably. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring

Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard

2003-09-06 Thread Darryl Barlow
I have this working well using the 2.4.18bf24 kernel. However, it fails on both 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 kernels with the message unable to mount root fs. This is the case even when the later kernels are compiled with the same options as the working 2.4.18 kernel. A Google search reveals that there