From: Shawn Douglass <sdouglas@whack.org>
To: Benoit Joseph <benoit.joseph@teledisnet.be>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hardware ide raid question
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:10:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021106021029.GB15437@whack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021105175302Z265108-32597+16146@vger.kernel.org>
Promise does not work with Linux as far as I know. I bought a Dragon board w/
on-board promise raid which I could never get working. You can do a software raid
like so.
-bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/raidtab
raiddev /dev/md2
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
chunk-size 64k
persistent-superblock 1
nr-spare-disks 0
device /dev/hda7
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdd7
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md3
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
chunk-size 64k
persistent-superblock 1
nr-spare-disks 0
device /dev/hda1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdd1
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
chunk-size 64k
persistent-superblock 1
nr-spare-disks 0
device /dev/hda2
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdd2
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md1
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
chunk-size 64k
persistent-superblock 1
nr-spare-disks 0
device /dev/hda3
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdd3
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md4
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
chunk-size 64k
persistent-superblock 1
nr-spare-disks 0
device /dev/hda6
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdd6
raid-disk 1
-sdouglas
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:58:37PM +0100, Benoit Joseph wrote:
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Benoit> Hello all,
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Benoit> I have to install a raid machine under linux.
Benoit> I'd like to install the gentoo distribution 1.4rc1 or RedHat 8.0
Benoit>
Benoit> The ide raid controler is Promise 20276 and it seems it does not work
Benoit> under Linux.
Benoit>
Benoit> Can someone tell me if there are solutions for this controller with any
Benoit> of the two distributions above. Maybe some module or kernel
Benoit> parameters...??
Benoit> I've already looked on google and I've found something for RH7.2.
Benoit>
Benoit> If there is no way to get this controller working, wich ide raid
Benoit> controller do you recommend?
Benoit>
Benoit> Any help greatly appreciated.
Benoit>
Benoit> Thanks for advance
Benoit>
Benoit> Benoit
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2002-11-05 17:58 Hardware ide raid question Benoit Joseph
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