My thanks to Erich for helping me out with this. The explicit
directions below were all I needed. I am now running RAID5 on the
patched 2.2.14 kernel, with the Promise Ultra66. Erich deserves his "2
cents"!
I was worried about just swapping in the Ultra card for the EIDE Max
card, but to my pleasant surprise, my raid5 started working with the new
card without a hiccup, and I now have Ints 10 & 11 free again.
Having said that, I was surprised to see that my nfsd stopped working
with the new build. I suspect it is a 2.2.14 issue and not raid
related. Again from someone on this list I was pointed to
nfs.sourceforge.net:
http://download.sourceforge.net/nfs/kernel-nfs-dhiggen_merge-1.4.tar.gz
to complete the transition.
Thanks to everyone for their help!
Doug Egan
Erich wrote:
>
> Ok, here are the notes that I wrote to myself of how to get Software
> RAID and the Promise Ultra/66 in the same kernel:
>
> 1. Don't use the RedHat version of the 2.2.14 kernel. It has
> too many patches, so the other patches won't work.
>
> 2. Do unpack the linux-2.2.14.tar.gz file.
>
> 3. Apply the ide.2.2.14.20000124.patch file using this command:
>
> cd /usr/src; patch -p0 < ide.2.2.14.20000124.patch
>
> 4. Apply the raid patch using this command:
>
> cd /usr/src; patch -p0 < raid-2.2.14-B1
>
> 5. Configure the kernel.
>
> 6. Compile it and install it.
>
> 7. Follow the instructions on the Software RAID How-To file about how
> to get RAID partitions to work.
>
> To get these files:
>
> The kernel source:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.14.tar.gz
>
> The ide patch:
>
>
>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/old/ide.2.2.14.20000124.patch.gz
>
> The RAID patch:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.14-B1
>
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