Hi Bill, On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:49, William Kenworthy wrote: > Yes, it appears to: its in the raid configure section of the kernel > alongside the promise and hpt raid devices. The (u)dma setting is in > the normal ide device settings. I am using it in ide mode (jumper > out). Note that this is gs-sources, not kernel-sources.
After installing and running Gentoo 1.4 on my PC I will upgrade the kernel to see what will happen. I will come back to this point later. Thanks B.Regards Stephen. > > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 23:51, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > > > Thanks for your response. > > > > Kindly advise whether you meant kernel-2.4.22 supports ATA RAID? But I > > have to install Gentoo 1.4 first before I can upgrade the kernel. Even > > after upgrading the kernel the OS still resides on drive-1, similar to > > Egg and Chicken question. > > > > B.R. > > Stephen > > > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:46, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > There's a driver for the 680 in 2.4.22-gss (one setting for udma, and > > > one for the ideraid) that I am using in IDE mode. Much better than the > > > 2.4.20 gentoo-sources for this card. Only prob is the card only has a > > > cdrom on it, and I dont have a /dev/hda, but there is a /proc/ide/hda > > > ... > > > > > > > > > > > > BillK > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 11:28, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > > Hi Kai, > > > > > > > > Thanks for your response. > > > > > > > > I tried hard to search silraid driver on Internet without result > > > > including subscribing to "linux-kernel" mailing list, a very high > > > > traffic list. > > > > > > > > I found Arjan's driver working on Medley software RAID (Silicon Image > > > > 3112 SATARaid, CMD680) but I have no idea whether it works on Z-Cyber > > > > ATA133 RAID controller. I am still searching its download website. > > > > > > > > B.R. > > > > Stephen > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 23:57, Kai Lindenberg wrote: > > > > > Hi Stephen, > > > > > > > > > > Am Dienstag, 2. September 2003 17:31 schrieb Stephen Liu: > > > > > > This is my first time installing Gentoo. > > > > > > > > > > > > Hardware Config. > > > > > > RAID-0 (Z-Cyber ATA133 RAID) > > > > > > Drive-A: Connected to 1st slot of RAID controller > > > > > > Drive-B: Connected to 2nd slot of RAID controller > > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > > I did following steps; > > > > > > 1)Booting up the PC with CD#1 > > > > > > 2)At prompt > > > > > > # gentoo md > > > > > > cdimage root# fdisk -l > > > > > > > > > > > > Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc: 40.0 GB > > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > > Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 40.0 GB > > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > > Why it is not a single hard drive, instead 2 drives being seen. > > > > > > One drive is of Linux system and another Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > > > > > > system. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hey, you answered this question by yourself.... > > > > > > > > > > 1. This is not a "real" hardware raidcontroller, so you always see > > > > > all connected drives, maybe the windows driver hides them. > > > > > > > > > > 2. You don't see an additional "drive" because you have no module > > > > > for the linux kernel. Try to find a silraid driver patch for your > > > > > kernel, maybe the latest vanilla kernel supports it, the latest > > > > > stable 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 doesn't. > > > > > > > > > > Kai > > > > > > > > > > > > To Get Your Own iCareHK.com Email Address? Go To www.iCareHK.com. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
