From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262281AbUBXPph (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:45:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262285AbUBXPph (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:45:37 -0500 Received: from ee.oulu.fi ([130.231.61.23]:30462 "EHLO ee.oulu.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262281AbUBXPpg (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:45:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:44:47 +0200 From: Pekka Pietikainen To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Walrond , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver Message-ID: <20040224154446.GA28720@ee.oulu.fi> References: <200402241110.07526.andrew@walrond.org> <403B6BF3.8070301@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <403B6BF3.8070301@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:21:23AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andrew Walrond wrote: > >I've got a 378 s150 tx chipset with their fasttrak raid bios. How should I > >configure the drives to use with the 2.6.3 kernel promise SATA driver? Can > >I configure them as a raid array? > > The 2.6.3 sata_promise driver ignores any RAID configuration you set up, > and directly talks to the drives. To boot off one you might have to setup a RAID configuration in the card BIOS though (Which is why I have a single drive configured as a raid0 :-) )