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
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  that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
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