From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262289AbUBXP4z (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:56:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262297AbUBXP4s (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:56:48 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:43443 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262289AbUBXPzd (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:55:33 -0500 Message-ID: <403B73E3.80100@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:55:15 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pekka Pietikainen CC: Andrew Walrond , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver References: <200402241110.07526.andrew@walrond.org> <403B6BF3.8070301@pobox.com> <20040224154446.GA28720@ee.oulu.fi> In-Reply-To: <20040224154446.GA28720@ee.oulu.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pekka Pietikainen wrote: > 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 :-) ) Hum, the BIOS works fine here with no arrays defined... Jeff