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Alon Weinstein | 20 Oct 2003 14:58

(To Federico) Re: Can you help me about via Sata Raid?

(One Federico Bacci emailed me personally with the message quoted at the 
bottom about RH & VIA SATA, I think because of my postings here -- 
However his email contained no reply-to address, and even the message 
headers did not reveal his address. So, Federico, and anyone else having 
problems with VIA SATA under RH, here's what I did):

Hello Federico.

I have tried so many things to solve this problem, but never got exactly 
what I wanted -- a clean install an a single SATA drive.

Some people suggested that I alter the RH installation CDs to include a 
modified kernel. I thought about it, but that would have require 
compiling a kernel that is at least 2.4.21 (SATA support starts around 
that area), patch to support the VIA SATA (see this posting: 
http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg202339.html -- usually this means 
manually patching both generic.c & generic.h since the files have been 
modified since), replace the kernel the installation will install *and* 
the kernel that is used to boot the installation itself (so the 
installation program will recognize the SATA drive and install into it). 
Don't know about you, for me that was shooting too high :)

So, what I decided to do was to fetch a regular IDE drive (which I had 
lying around doing nothing anyhow), did a clean, standard RH9 install 
onto it, and got to work to figure out how to find that SATA. (b.t.w -- 
if you have the exact same board as me then your on board 1000Mbit lan 
card is *not* supported by the kernel, and you'll have to either 
download the source code and compile the module from VIA or install some 
standard PCI card like I did for now)
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Shane Kerr | 20 Oct 2003 16:56
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IDE RAID on 2.6?

All,

I don't see any IDE RAID options on the 2.6 kernels.  Are these no 
longer supported?  Are there any plans to support them?

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Shane
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Arjan van de Ven | 20 Oct 2003 16:59
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Re: IDE RAID on 2.6?

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:56:02PM +0200, Shane Kerr wrote:
> All,
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> I don't see any IDE RAID options on the 2.6 kernels.  Are these no 
> longer supported?  Are there any plans to support them?

the plans are to move this into the Device Mapper layer via userspace tools
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David Cooley | 24 Oct 2003 02:12

Promise PDC20376

Wanted to let everyone know Promise has released a driver for RH8 and 9 for
the PDC20376.
Works great. I have it running on a Soltek SL75FRN2-RL motherboard with 2
200GB SATA 150 drives in a raid 0 config and an 80G WD caviar drive on the
ATA133 port of the Promise controller with absolutely no problems.
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Optimized | 26 Oct 2003 10:41

RedHat or Fedora Installation using ataraid

Hello,

I have an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe motherboard and I am using its Promise
FastTrak 378 SATA controller in raid 0.

My system is directly installed on this volume and I am now planning the
upgrade to the Fedora Core and I was wondering if there was a way to
make the installation process use ataraid at the installation startup in
order to detect my volume instead of using Promise driver disquette.

Or else I guess I will have to wait until Promise releases new drivers
:(

I am asking this because I recently installed FreeBSD 5.1 on this same
volume and I saw that it used ataraid to detect the volume and no
disquette was ever needed! I was simply wondering if the same feature
exist on Red Hat or Fedora.

Thanks

mail AT optimized DOT org
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