Re: [gentoo-user] Silicon Image SIL680-RAID card

2003-09-02 Thread William Kenworthy 
Ive just installed one of these, as an ide only (jumper)  with a cdrom
on it.  Works sorta OK, but insists on being hda, shoving the
motherboard (softraid) ide up to hde/hdg and refusing to give a /dev/hda
node.

Its only a winraid cripple so use software raid to drive it unless dual
booting.

Should drive 4 drives as master/slave, but you really need 4 masters
from everything Ive read.

BillK


On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 01:05, Erv Young wrote:
 I have a Silicon Image IDE RAID card, model SIL680-RAID.  Am about to try 
 bringing up Gentoo for the first time.  I will boot from a plain-ordinary 
 IDE drive that is not part of the RAID array.
 
 I have 4 identical drives, want to do RAID0+1.  Will the RAID card 
 work?  Anything non-straightforward that a newbie should be aware of?
 
 Thanks.
 
 --Erv Young
 
 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Silicon Image SIL680-RAID card

2003-09-01 Thread martin 
Zitat von Erv Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 
 
 I have a Silicon Image IDE RAID card, model SIL680-RAID.  Am about to try  
 bringing up Gentoo for the first time.  I will boot from a plain-ordinary  
 IDE drive that is not part of the RAID array. 
  
 I have 4 identical drives, want to do RAID0+1.  Will the RAID card  
 work?  Anything non-straightforward that a newbie should be aware of? 
 
hmmm... will this work?! for me it did not work! i have tried a 'DawiControl' 
RAID-Controller which uses the SIL0860 chip. one time gentoo live cd detects 
it correctly and loads 'ataraid' and 'silraid', but neither a raid0 nor a 
raid1 array were detected correctly. the other times the livecd did not detect 
the card and manually loading the modules did not work! it seems that the sil- 
module is in an early state and not working well. 
 
further i have noticed, that the card claims to be ide0 and any linux 
installed on a hd that is connected to the onboard ide ports will no more 
boot correctly, because the names of the partition will also shift from hda, 
hdb,  whatever... to others... so your root-partition changes and will 
not be mounted correctly... 
 
a highpoint card will work well... (will be detected correctly, does detect 
raid-arrays and does not claim to be ide0) 
 
maybe you have a different experiences, ... so let me know! 
 
much fun, 
martin 
 
 
  
 Thanks. 
  
 --Erv Young 
  
  
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