its definitely IDE because it has two serial ATA IDE
drives plugged into it.
it's an onboard controller on an ASUS motherboard.

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 13:11, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 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.
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