Okay. Someone in this thread mentioned that they had a 2100S which according to Adaptec is a SCSI controller. I guess I thought you had the 2100S.
Did you check out www.linux.doc for a How-To on IDE Raid? > its definitely IDE because it has two serial ATA IDE > drives plugged into it. > it's an onboard controller on an ASUS motherboard. > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 13:11, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > Which controller do you have - if it's the 2100S that is a SCSI > > controller, not IDE. > > > > To answer your question - yes. You set the array up in hardware and the > > system sees it as a drive. For example, my 3210S has 5 drives in the > > RAID and a hot spare and this is the only disks on the system. On the > > LiveCD I tell it to modprobe dpt_i2o and the driver loads. The disk is > > now /dev/sda for the while drive - my partitions are /dev/sda1, > > /dev/sda2, etc. > > > > > if the array is all setup in hardware shouldn't linux > > > see the array as just a normal ide drive? > > > i can't see it at all.. i think the MD raid stuff is > > > screwing it up, but i can't stop the live cd from > > > loading it. > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:41, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > > Then you don't have the 2100S? That's a SCSI RAID according to > > > > Adaptec's website. > > > > > > > > > It's an ATA driver, the raid controller is an onboard IDE raid > > > > > controller. > > > > > I've got a mirrored array setup in the hardware but i can't for the > > > > > life of me figure out how to access it from linux > > > > > > > > > > the promise pdcraid driver looks to be broken? > > > > > or do i need to specify addresses or icqs? > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:21, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > > > > Is that a SCSI driver? Does the Adaptec site give any hints. On > > > > > > some adaptec cards I check out thier driver download section as > > > > > > it might give a clue as to what the linux driver is. > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm trying to use the pdcraid driver but it can't find the > > > > > > > array > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:03, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > > > > > > Which driver are you using? I have an Adaptec 3210S and I > > > > > > > > use the dpt_i2o driver. There is another dpt driver but that > > > > > > > > doesn't work with this board per Adaptec. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:46, Francois Meehan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi Robert, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Did you have any luck? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am having the same problem, my raid controller is a > > > > > > > > > > 2100s Raid controller, certified for RH and suse, > > > > > > > > > > obviously not for Gentoo... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I hate that, there should be no such thing as "certified > > > > > > > > > for RedHat"! Linux, is Linux. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Have you tried a bastardised redhat kernel? It's masked, > > > > > > > > > but there. -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
