[gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-26 Thread Catalin Trifu
Why not use software RAID ? You don't necessarily need the hardware RAID and as far as I know software RAID works just as fine as the hardware RAID. Catalin Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Good afternoon list. I am trying now for 8 days to make nvidia RAID works on gentoo systems; I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Catalin Trifu wrote: Why not use software RAID ? You don't necessarily need the hardware RAID and as far as I know software RAID works just as fine as the hardware RAID. Especially so, as those cheap hardware raids aren't hardware RAID at all but just a software RAID. Why not use the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-26 Thread Friedrich Göpel
On 6/26/06, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use software RAID ? You don't necessarily need the hardware RAID and as far as I know software RAID works just as fine as the hardware RAID. Hi, Well, usually hardware raid is much better, at least if you want raid5/6, for raid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-26 Thread James Buckley
He probably want's to use fakeraid because he wants to have a dual-boot Windows-Linux, both using raid. I also have had the same problem with 2.6.16 + dmraid, and the only solution I found was to use kernel 2.6.15-r9 (just 2.6.16). Only 2.6.15 gives me other problems... On 26/06/06, Friedrich

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-26 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi all on the list; thanks for attention. I need to use fake RAID because of windows ( I had incresed in 80% the performance of windows because of the fake raid :) ). I know linux software RAID is good, and I had already used on a box running just linux, but I really need to use dual boot on this

[gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-26 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 26 June 2006 11:58, James Buckley wrote: He probably want's to use fakeraid because he wants to have a dual-boot Windows-Linux, both using raid. I also have had the same problem with 2.6.16+ dmraid, and the only solution I found was to use kernel 2.6.15-r9 (just 2.6.16). Only 2.6.15

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-26 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi I use a A8N-E, with nvidia raid controler 2 segate SATA disks working at RAID-0 ( sttriping ), I had installed gentoo base system and grub successfully, but at boot time with kernel 2.6.16 it cannot find device on /dev/mapper and with kernel 2.6.15-r1 it has a kernel panic saiyng it can´t find

[gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-26 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 26 June 2006 20:28, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi I use a A8N-E, with nvidia raid controler 2 segate SATA disks working at RAID-0 ( sttriping ), I had installed gentoo base system and grub successfully, but at boot time with kernel 2.6.16 it cannot find device on /dev/mapper and with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-26 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 26 June 2006 14:24, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi all on the list; thanks for attention. For the future when you want more attention, please keep it in the same thread. It's not like we only notice new threads... -- Bo Andresen pgpubP2agmrF9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-26 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
ok, I will keep it in one thread, but last one got killed or it look like .. :( in advance sorry. On 6/26/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 26 June 2006 14:24, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi all on the list; thanks for attention. For the future when you want more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 6/26/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tryed to dmraid + 2.6.16 and all I got was that /dev/mapper/* was empty ( just have control node ). I had try 2.6.15-r1 and /de/mapper was populated Populated...with what? How are you determining this? Have you hacked up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-26 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
I don´t remember hte exactly name of the device but is /dev/mapper/nv_xxx1 NTFS /dev/mapper/nv_xxx2 NTFS /dev/mapper/nv_xxx3 NTFS /dev/mapper/nv_xxx5 ext2 boot /dev/mapper/nv_xxx6 swap /dev/mapper/nv_xxx7 reiserfs / /dev/mapper/nv_xxx8 reiserfs /tmp /dev/mapper/nv_xxx9 reiserfs /var

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

2006-06-26 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
I got: title=gentoo linux 2.6.15-r1 root (hd0,4) kernel=/vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/mapper/nv_xxx7 dodmraid initrd /initrd On 6/26/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/26/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tryed to dmraid +