From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F6nke_Ruempler?= Subject: CMD649 hardware raid support Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:52:05 +0200 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <00bb01c37902$c299ca20$9700a8c0@eagle> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.city-map.de ([62.116.172.149]:16567 "EHLO mail.city-map.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261217AbTILHwG (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 03:52:06 -0400 Received: from mail.topconcepts.net by mail.city-map.de (62.116.172.149:25) with [XMail 1.16 (Linux/Ix86) ESMTP Server] id for from ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:52:03 +0200 Received: from eagle by blah.topconcepts.net with [XMail 1.16 (Linux/Ix86) ESMTP Server] id for from ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:02:52 +0200 List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org hi ide-devels, i have a cmd649 hardware raid controller with 2 maxtor hdd's. in the controller bios setup i bound them to a raid-1 array. now linux finds the card CMD649: chipset revision 2 CMD649: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later CMD649: ROM enabled at 0xeff00000 ide2: BM-DMA at 0xd600-0xd607, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xd608-0xd60f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio hde: attached ide-disk driver. hde: host protected area => 1 hde: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=158816/16/63 hdf: attached ide-disk driver. hdf: host protected area => 1 hdf: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=158816/16/63 and as everybody can see linux IGNORES the raid. imho the hardware raid array should be transparent to the os and show 1 device to it. linux seems to simply ignore this. here the lspci: 00:0c.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc PCI0649 (rev 02) Subsystem: CMD Technology Inc: Unknown device 3649 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR-