On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:13:57AM -0500, Michael Hicks wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:58:17PM -0500, Michael Hicks wrote: > > > Why aren't any raid modules included in the official kernel packages > > > for UltraSparc? > > > > Because most likely the ioctl's aren't written to support them on > > UltraSPARC's 32-bit -> 64-bit translations. If you have success, let me > > know, and I'll enable them. > > Just to be clear, I'm running testing. > > I've had a certain level of success with enabling raid0 support on the > 2.4.7 kernel-source package from testing. Even managed to get that going > when compiling with gcc-3.0 (probably just lucky). The compile barfs on > 2.4.9, though it doesn't seem to be in a raid-related area (could be a > symptom of a compiler bug, but I don't know yet)
I'll give it a try aswell. Please use egcs64, as gcc-3.0-sparc64 is known to miscompile the kernel. > I did end up having some trouble with the raid system, though, as it seemed > to clobber the partition tables on the second and third disks in my 3 drive > group. > > However, this didn't really matter to me, as I'm using the entirety of > these disks and merging them together into one big device. I just changed > the config files to point, for example, at /dev/hdb instead of /dev/hdb1. Yeah, that will clobber the partition tables. -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- SPARC/UltraSPARC Porter -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
