Patrick, I am attaching a mail that I sent to Erich. I followed his instructions with a virgin 2.2.14 kernel and have had great success using the Promise Ultra66 board in a 3disk RAID 5 configuration. As someone has previously mentioned, the RH6.2 kernel is already greatly patched, and applying the patches specified in the attachment to the RH kernel will generate lots of errors. Regards, Doug Egan -- --- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Douglas Egan Wind River | | | | Tel : 847-837-1530 | | Fax : 847-949-1368 | | HTTP : http://www.windriver.com | | Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
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 > > -- > This message was my two cents worth. Please deposit two cents into my > e-gold account by following this link: > http://rootworks.com/twocentsworth.cgi?102861 > 275A B627 1826 D627 ED35 B8DF 7DDE 4428 0F5C 4454 -- ---
