Janie,
I think I have an IDE raid card floating around somewhere you could
try. Give me a call if you want me to drop it by before I take off.
541-683-2794.
-Mike
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 11:26, Linux Rocks! wrote:
> I still dont have this working. Ive been trying to figure out how the best
> way
> to get it working. I think ive given up on the sis 180 controller. Even
> though its "supported" and the driver loads for it, nothing ive done has
> gotten it to work, and ive wasted a week trying.
>
> It has another pair of ide channels, the primary one is ata 133, and the
> secondary is ata 100.
> I have these drives:
> 2x 200gb ata133 ide maxtor drives.
> 1x 160gb ata133 ide maxtor drive.
> 1x CD/DVDR
>
> The way your supposed to hook this up, would be with the 160 on /dev/hda,
> dvdr
> on /dev/hdc, and the 200gb disks as master/slave on the sis 180.
>
> This would give me the system on the 160 drive, access to the dvdr (on a
> ata33
> bus), and the raid array (raid0) as data.
>
> Since Im blue in the face from trying for over a week to get that damn 180
> controller (not)working, (and its not showing me any errors, none of the help
> ive gotten has worked, near as i can tell it should work, but donsn't).
>
> If I do the software raid, it wants those drives to be master (identical
> disks
> on identical controllers), then im going to have an issue with ata100
> controller, and ata133 controller, and how am I going to boot the 160gb disk?
> and or put the dvdr?
>
> I went by stans yesterday, and he sells cheapo ide raid controllers that
> shoud
> work, but he wont have any till next week.
>
> I checked into returning these drives for sata drives, but that will cost an
> extra $100, and I will end up with 160gb disks instead of 200gb.
>
> Ideally, I would like this to work as advertised, but at this point, im so
> damn frustrated that im looking at any alternative that will work.
>
> Jamie
>
--
Mike Cherba
Cavium Networks
883 Brookside Dr
Eugene, OR 97405
phone: (541) 684-3820
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.caviumnetworks.com
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