Which controller do you have - if it's the 2100S that is a SCSI controller, not IDE.
To answer your question - yes. You set the array up in hardware and the system sees it as a drive. For example, my 3210S has 5 drives in the RAID and a hot spare and this is the only disks on the system. On the LiveCD I tell it to modprobe dpt_i2o and the driver loads. The disk is now /dev/sda for the while drive - my partitions are /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc. > if the array is all setup in hardware shouldn't linux > see the array as just a normal ide drive? > i can't see it at all.. i think the MD raid stuff is > screwing it up, but i can't stop the live cd from > loading it. > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:41, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > Then you don't have the 2100S? That's a SCSI RAID according to Adaptec's > > website. > > > > > It's an ATA driver, the raid controller is an onboard IDE raid > > > controller. > > > I've got a mirrored array setup in the hardware but i can't for the > > > life of me figure out how to access it from linux > > > > > > the promise pdcraid driver looks to be broken? > > > or do i need to specify addresses or icqs? > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:21, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > > Is that a SCSI driver? Does the Adaptec site give any hints. On > > > > some adaptec cards I check out thier driver download section as it > > > > might give a clue as to what the linux driver is. > > > > > > > > > I'm trying to use the pdcraid driver but it can't find the array > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:03, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > > > > Which driver are you using? I have an Adaptec 3210S and I use > > > > > > the dpt_i2o driver. There is another dpt driver but that doesn't > > > > > > work with this board per Adaptec. > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:46, Francois Meehan wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Robert, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Did you have any luck? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am having the same problem, my raid controller is a 2100s > > > > > > > > Raid controller, certified for RH and suse, obviously not for > > > > > > > > Gentoo... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I hate that, there should be no such thing as "certified for > > > > > > > RedHat"! Linux, is Linux. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Have you tried a bastardised redhat kernel? It's masked, but > > > > > > > there. -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
