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I installed Slack-9 in a Compaq ProLiant ML-310 server that has a built-in raid controller with 2 Maxtor 80GB in Raid-1.
Well... I re-compiled kernel with support of a lot of Block-Dev until I could find this in Boot message:
Quote:
DMESG:
CMD649: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.0
CMD649: chipset revision 2
CMD649: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2030-0x2037, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2038-0x203f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
SvrWks CSB6: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0f.1
SvrWks CSB6: chipset revision 160
SvrWks CSB6: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0x2000-0x2007, BIOS settings: hdeio, hdfio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0x2008-0x200f, BIOS settings: hdgio, hdhio
hda: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
blk: queue c04d06c0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: Maxtor 6Y080L0, ATA DISK drive
hdd: Maxtor 6Y080L0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c04d0b34, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c04d0c80, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hde: LTN486S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x2010-0x2017,0x201a on irq 10
ide1 at 0x2020-0x2027,0x202a on irq 10
ide2 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
hdc: host protected area => 1
hdc: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=158816/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdd: attached ide-disk driver.
hdd: host protected area => 1
hdd: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=158816/16/63, UDMA(100)
hde: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hde: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
hdc: [PTBL] [9964/255/63] hdc1
hdd: [PTBL] [9964/255/63] hdd1
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
hd: unable to get major 3 for hard disk
at the end... i load all in kernel like RAID-support, LVM and above all ATARAID:
Quote:
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 3276.800 MB/sec
32regs : 2031.600 MB/sec
pIII_sse : 3632.800 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 3161.200 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 3154.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (3632.800 MB/sec)
md: multipath personality registered as nr 7
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002)
but nothing was find.
I installed RAID-1 in the past, with HPT or Promise controller with 0 problems...... I used ATARAID and I was able to view the ATARAID device /dev/ataraid/d0p1....
Here with this compaq-damn-controller... I can only view
/dev/hdc and /dev/hdd that are hardware device... but I should mount and use the RAID!!!!
In hope that u had understood my bad english.... I'll thank u to have spent so much time to read this not so few lines...
Driver is megaide, devices are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
I don't have real scsi devices, this are created thru the driver (megaide).
RAID is configured within the BIOS (1x40Gb, 2x80GB) and SCSI devices are sda (40Gb - used as system disk) and sdb (80Gb - miroring 2 80Gb).
When you installing system, you have to load the driver megaide after you load kernel and before you start making partitions.
I mailed the manufacturer of this card and they supplied me with a open source driver. It worked great in Slackware 9.1, I'm now booting my system from on a RAID1 raid on the Megaide controller.
Originally posted by cboren I mailed the manufacturer of this card and they supplied me with a open source driver. It worked great in Slackware 9.1, I'm now booting my system from on a RAID1 raid on the Megaide controller.
What email address for the manufacturer did you use? I'd like to request it as well.
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