This has been done to death a few times. Basicly if you want to use raid simply on this board, go redhat. Whilst I have not done it, it seems that their install will detect it and install the drivers in RH7.2. I was looking over the shoulder of someone doing an install and it was even a menu choice!
For Mandrake, you are stuck with pure software raid with no use of the HP chip - I guess the difference between an OS aimed at the desktop and less towards a server setup. Can be done but requires a *LOT* of reading and research - I am trying to figure out how to do this and not lose any of the 40gb of data already on the system that I have nowhere to back up to because I could not find the info needed when the machine was built. Note that the howto's are very detailed,but quite technical. BillK On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 09:11, Eugenio Diaz wrote: > Well, I finaly finished building my new machine (lots of tie wraps, cable > routing, etc.), an Abit KR7A-RAID with dual ATA133 60GB maxtors on a stripe. > But I just found that Linux do not support the HPT372 on board raid controller > >:<) Double Damn the assholes at High Point!!! I bought this board with the > impression that High Point was a Linux friendly company, since when I was doing > my light pre-shopping research I saw a big prominent Linux Logo on their > page!!! > > Can Mandrake put pressure with Abit on High Point to release specs, or whatever > is needed for the drivers to be merged into the kernel, and not those stupid > binary drivers for old Linux distros ... > > Do you guys know if it is posible to take the RH7.1 drivers they provide, and > cram them (some how disabling the versioning of symbols) into an initrd to make > a custom Cooker install discs? > > BTW, this message was copied to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", so if you reply, > do a reply all, so that they can see how stupid they are ... my immediate > reaction was to return the board, but since I invested so much time building > the box nicely, I am just going to disable the raid controller, and install on > the normal ATA100 channels. > > THANKS HIGH POINT!!!! > > ===== > ________________________ > Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE > Linux Engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ >
