Nick Brown wrote on Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:46:12AM +0100 : > Excellent! > so the stuff I pointed to is included. I though I was right, Mandrake do > include proprietary .o files.
Which ones? > So if I buy a Epox EP-8K3A+ RAID (as I had planed) it looks like it should it > work. But the question is, does it just provide multiple ide devices or can > it do the hardware raid as well? Supposedly the proprietary binary driver supports RAID. > > * hpt37[24], don't oops if we find them > > * put another WD disk in the ide-dma black list. > > * fix Oops with hpt37x & a lot of controllers. > > - 2.4.18-7mdk. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All it says is it fixes the oops, it doesn't say it supports it. Don't read too much into it. > > $ ls /lib/modules/2.4.18-19mdk/kernel/drivers/ide | grep hpt > > hptraid.o.gz That's the generic one. Look at the difference between: [todd@fiji ~/RPM/BUILD/linux]$ find . -name *hpt* ./drivers/ide/hptraid.h ./drivers/ide/hptraid.c ./drivers/ide/hpt34x.c ./drivers/ide/hpt366.c and the proprietary binary one: hpt37x2lib.o It's not included by default. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-21mdk
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