On Thursday 12 September 2002 03:33 am, St�phane Teletch�a wrote:
> Due to no answer i my last message (sorry i couldn't go through the betas
> stages, the hardware is 4 days old), if flipped connectors (nappes IDE -
> please translate) 40/80, the harddrive, and finally found a pseudo-working
> configuration :
>

I See the same errors if I dont use ide=nodma
>
> Before the hd in hdb was in hdg (reiserfs partitions) and produced the same
> errors messages, so i presume it is a not-yet supported chipset ?

Actually I didnt catch if you had raid enabled or not, but the chipset seems 
to be supported, my bios version 2.31 reports 370/372 and the "open source" 
driver from www.highpoint-tech.com is the same for the 370 and 372.

I can make partitions on the raid array during an install (ataraid.o and 
hptraid.o loaded) but for some reason the diskdrake writes the partition 
table to the drive in a way that hoses the Raid array. upon reboot HPT bios 
complains the raid array is broken and you have to re-create it and lose 
everything on the drive. 

After installing on a regular drive I can load ataraid and hptraid and access 
the partitions on the raid array, but it is choppy and slow. I can not use 
diskdrake.

During an install the raid partitions show up as /dev/ataraid/d0p? which 
diskdrake likes, however when loading the modules in a running system the 
devices come up as /dev/ataraid/disc0/part? which diskdrake does not 
recognize, making a link from /dev/ataraid/disc0/part? to /dev/ataraid/d0p? 
lets diskdrake work.

I had the /, /home, and swap on the raid0 array in 8.2 and it worked 
beautifully, so far the results in 9.0 are dissappointing, but at least built 
in support is there. 

Building support into the kernel and disabling the other ide stuff you dont 
need may take care of the sluugish response. But thrashing the raid array is 
a BAD thing :(

Reply via email to