I had my abit kT7-raid working fine with mdk8.2, it also has a hpt370 raid. hpt support is next to nothing, they wrote an "opensource" driver but as so many other companys have done, this is far from open. Its not compatible with the kernel licence.
8,2 worked fine out the box, and also fine after i rebuilt the kernel 2.4.19. Did not need a initrd at all.
Now its running mkd9 with stock kernel fine. Perhaps you should try upgrading your kernel by hand or just wait for mdk9
JG
KevinO wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Having never used the two HPT370 ide ports on my Soyo 6BA+100 motherboard, I wanted to put my new IBM 80GB ATA 100 drive into my existing Mandrake 8.2 box.The kernel 'sees' the drive as hde and identifies it but hangs during boot with a message like: Partition Check : /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0 If I boot with the lilo command line: 'linux hde=noprobe' I can get the system to boot but there isn't any '/dev/hde' or '/dev/ide/host2....' I have 'append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi' in my lilo.conf file. The system runs fine otherwise. I know the drive is working since I temporarily made it a slave on the primary ide (hdb) and was able to partition and format the drive that way. HELP! Do I need to load a driver and make a new initrd? I don't want to wait for my copy of 9.0 to arrive before I play with this drive at high speed. TIA - -- KevinO
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