i've managed to get an actual budget to put together a woody
server with a real raid -- and of course, it's not going
smoothly.
athlon xp 1800+
768mb eec-registered ddr ram
dual 160gb (western digital, 7200rpm) drives, raid1 (mirror)
fasttrak100 lite
yet, during startup from the woody iso (which is exactly the
same as what i get when booting the 2.4.21-pre3 fd .bin image i
got from
http://ttul.org/~rrsadler/linux-promise/
) i see in dmesg that Promise Fasttrak(tm) Software raid driver
is loaded and being tested, but not finding any raid arrays:
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found
Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01
No raid array found
<snip>
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
<snip>
md: multipath personality registered as nr 7
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
<snip>
i noticed that the instructions at
http://ttul.org/~rrsadler/linux-promise/
mention the FastTrak TX2000 Ultra ATA/133 UDMA RAID Card (the
133) whereas mine is the fastrak100 lite... is that a significant
difference?
at bootup, after DEL is no longer an option, ^F gets me into the
raid configuration area, before the lilo boot (whether from cd
or floppy) and all seems healthy, there.
when i boot the boot-floppies (which, like the cd-rom, also
apologize for being called boot floppies :) all seems smooth
sailing until "partition hard disk" which lists only /dev/hdc and
/dev/hda; these appear to be the two drives composing the raid
array. each worked fine plugged in as a sole ide-drive; complete
install went like a dream -- without the raid setup, of course.
now it's supposed to be under /dev/ataraid/d0, but cfdisk (alt-f2
to get to a command line from the install console) says "Cannot
open disk drive".
what tests can i make to pin down what's stuck?
==
note -- all these log entries are re-keyed, of course, since i
can't get the raid system up and running. two keyboards, two
monitors, two hands :), two disks, no raid :(
==
i found the above resources at
http://colby.tjs.org/~brendandg/promise-ft66-howto/howto.html
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I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0;
Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown
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