I beleive I have hardware ATA RAID controller, becuase when I'm booting up with gentoo doataraid kernel option the setup says it is detected and when I do modprobe ataraid, no errors appear. When I do modprobe pdcriad or hptraid. modules can't be loaded with a bunch of errors, so I assume that I have ataraid. Now, if I do Kernel configuration, what options have to be selected? How can I collect more information about my ata raid controller from Windows machine? ( I do not have Linux installed yet, struggling) 1)Do I need to select HPT336/337C chipset support? 2)Do I need to sellect IDE Raid support? ( I think I do ).3) Highpoint? No, right, since mu modprobe failes. Or do I have to select them all?
Do I have to create /mnt/gentoo/dev directory before mount it? Do installing the system on ATA RAid have some advantages? ( I have install Slackware even without knowing that Raid exists). Thanks, Walther. Code listing .1: Loading RAID modules # modprobe ataraid For Promise Raid Controllers: # modprobe pdcraid For Highpoint Raid Controllers: # modprobe hptraid Some ATA RAID Controllers require you to reboot after partitioning; formatting will otherwise fail. Before chrooting, mount the devicetree into the new environment: Code listing .2: Mounting /dev into /mnt/gentoo/dev # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev During kernel configuration, select the required RAID options: Code listing .3: RAID in the Linux Kernel Configuration For Highpoint RAID controllers: ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> [*] HPT36X/37X chipset support [*] Support for IDE Raid controllers [*] Highpoint 370 software RAID For Promise RAID controllers: ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> [*] PROMISE PDC202{46|62|65|67} support and/or [*] PROMISE PDC202{68|69|70|71|75|76|77} support [*] Support for IDE Raid controllers [*] Support Promise software RAID (Fasttrak(tm)) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list