Hi, > I'm not 'guru' or 'core-unix/hardware' so I may be wrong... anyway, I > also have a raid HPT372 motherboard so I did my searching and found out: > > 1) I think have seen HPT372 is 'reported' to be supported on kernel > 2.4.19. Mandrake 8.2 comes with 2.4.18 by default, so you'll need to > update or patch the kernel. I haven't done myself yet but as soon as I > do some things before I'll try it to see if it fix it (or maybe you tell > me how about before O;-)) >
Good to know, thanks. I figure given the timing I'll just wait for 9.0's release and get the updated kernel that way. > 2) As far as I know, you can connect up to 2 drives in a single ide > channel and each one will have its own bus speed, but if you access both > of them at the same time you share the bandwith between them, so the > more slow the drive is the more it will 'disturb' the other. Conclusion: > try not to share ide channels if possible and if you have to, try not to > share the most used/important ones and not to mix very quick ones with > lamers ones... > > 3) Probably your motherboard will have a couple of ide belonging to > HPT372 *AND* another couple of 'normal' ide channels, all fully > operative at the same time. If so, you have a total of 4 ide channels > (up to 8 ide drives!!!) what means you can connect the cdrom in one > channel and still can put 3 more ide drives in 3 independent ide > channels!! Exactly my plan. The feeling of power is overwhelming! Mwah hah hah hah! > > > Good luck... > thanks again. p.s. I told Lyvim I'd see if DiskDrake would check if the disk on the Highpoint controller showed up if it were already partitioned. The answer, sadly, is still, No.
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