RE: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-26 Thread Lindsay Yardley
| On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:15:42AM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote: | > G'day Pigeon, | > Sorry. | > cheers | > Lindsay | | No worries mate. :-) | | You seem to have more or less got it going now... sound! One point - | the usual syntax is mount , eg. | mount /dev/md0 /home | | Pigeon

Re: PCI ATA card support - fun stuff

2003-03-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:08:15PM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > > G'day Alvin/All, > > | - why do you want raid??? > > I'm setting up a file/print server. does NOT justify raid ... but if you mean its a home server or mail server or webserver, you can u

Re: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-24 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:08:15PM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > G'day Alvin/All, > | - why do you want raid??? > I'm setting up a file/print server. > | > | - sometimes you cannot boot off hde/hdg > |- did you test that you cn boot off hde/hdg > don't want to boot from it. > > hda1 - /b

RE: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-24 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day Daniel, I'm going to try and do something else today, I'm suffering information overload. BUT, I have partioned them as FD but cannot see how to make them RAID, I have 2 FD partitions where I want 1 83 partition mounted and initialised as /home (mirrored of coarse). If I continue the install

Re: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-24 Thread daniel huhardeaux
Lindsay Yardley wrote: [...] hda1 - /boot hda2 - / hda3 - swap hde/g raid set - /var hde/g raid set - /home that's why i asked if it would be possible/advisable to first install debian to hda1,2,3 then add the RAID1 set, format/mount it and move /var & /home over to it. So far I've found out I nee

RE: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-23 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day Alvin/All, | - why do you want raid??? I'm setting up a file/print server. | | - sometimes you cannot boot off hde/hdg | - did you test that you cn boot off hde/hdg don't want to boot from it. hda1 - /boot hda2 - / hda3 - swap hde/g raid set - /var hde/g raid set - /home that's why

RE: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi lindsay On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > G'day Daniel/All, > The HowTo at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO/index.html was very > helpful. I can now see hde & hdg and format them as fd from the debian > installer BUT (yes another one) How do I make a raid set of these and

RE: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-23 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day Daniel/All, The HowTo at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO/index.html was very helpful. I can now see hde & hdg and format them as fd from the debian installer BUT (yes another one) How do I make a raid set of these and format/mount them? I just can't see how/where this is done. tia Li

Re: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-22 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:09:46PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Also, the kernel sources for version 2.4 are available as a package, so you > could compile your own kernel with the proper hardware support ^^^ That's "CMD64X and CMD680 chips

Re: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-22 Thread daniel huhardeaux
Lindsay Yardley wrote: [...] RedHat & Mandrake with the 2.4 kernel recognise the ATA card OK but Debian 3 r0 can't seem to find it. The documentation from Silicon Image would indicate that "for releases using a kernel later than 2.4, driver support for your Silicon Image-based storage controller

Re: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-22 Thread Frans Pop
The standard kernel with debian 3 is version 2.2, but there is also a 'kernel flavour' available based on version 2.4. See http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#s-newinst for further information. Also, the kernel sources for version 2.4 are available as