On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > 3Com 3c509 NIC (I couldn't keep it running for more than an hour with a > 3c905) The 3COM drivers are troublesome. Use Intel Etherexpress instead. > RedHat Version 5.2 (2.0.35 Kernel) > > I put the system together by loading the LINUX system on the two > internal disks attached to the Adpatec controller. I configured RedHat > Linux to use the eata-dma driver to recognise the DPT RAID card. I > rebuilt the kernal to use both cpu's. I created two striped disk sets > of three drives each in the external enclosure using the the DOS based > Storage Manager. I created 2, 12 gig ext2 file systems on the RAID > units. Did you rebuild the kernel with the eata-dma driver statically linked? This is quite important. eata-dma doesn't work right as a module. Also, use 2.0.36 kernel. Tom
