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 was running potato. > 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 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. That's pretty ugly, and not an option for me. But I had this exact same problem, it seems that there are some assumptions about the disk label in the raid code. Tsk-tsk. Everything would run fine after setting up the raid as long as I didn't reboot ~:^) Then the label on the second drive would be toast. SS20, 2.2.x kernel. a
