[EDIT]: Nevermind! Forgot to set up the RAID in the BIOS! Oops!!
Hmm.....I'm REALLY close to getting my setup working, but still not quite there.
- MSI nForce2 board with the sucky Promise 376 chipset
- Fresh RedHat 9 install, not updated as yet
- Drivers installed during OS installation (as proof, here's some dmesg output):
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
PROMISE FastTrak TX4000/376/378/S150 TX Series Linux Driver Version 1.00.0.18
scsi0 : ft3xx
- Can see drivers loading and warning message about polluted kernel during boot
- Output of cat /proc/scsi/ft3xx/0 shows the following:
[root@localhost ft3xx]# cat /proc/scsi/ft3xx/0
PROMISE FastTrak TX4000/376/378/S150 TX Series Linux Driver Version 1.00.0.18
Adapter1 - FastTrak 376
Array Drive -
1 : Maxtor 6Y160M0 IDE1/Master 163928MB IRQ(11) UDMA6 Free
3 : Maxtor 6Y160M0 IDE2/Master 163928MB IRQ(11) UDMA6 Free
- Tried /dev/MAKEDEV sd* and have entries in /dev for sd devices, but still can't mkfs or mount anything there.
- Output from df -k (I've loaded RH on a standard IDE drive. I'm trying to use the RAID as a non-OS disk):
[root@localhost ft3xx]# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 17923760 1629288 15383992 10% /
/dev/hda1 101089 9294 86576 10% /boot
none 515464 0 515464 0% /dev/shm
/dev/fd0 1424 1192 232 84% /mnt/floppy
- For grins, tried to make a filesystem on what the array device SHOULD be:
[root@localhost dev]# /sbin/mkfs -c -v /dev/sda1
mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
mkfs.ext2: No such device or address while trying to determine filesystem size
So, I'm stumped! RH can see the disks. It knows what they are, but has no idea how to deal with them when it comes to a filesystem.
TIA for any insight!