[Eug-lug] grrrr.... damn computers!

[Linux Rocks!]

See below...
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 05:29 pm, Garl Grigsby wrote:
: Linux Rocks! wrote:
: >So, Im still trying to backup my laptop, and thats being a pain in the
: > ass... kbear keeps barfing on me.. getting real tired if that, but whats
: > pissing me off more is this damn raid setup. I still havnt gotten linux
: > to see the drives. I have tested it in windows xp, and the hardware does
: > work.
: >
: >This is my hardware:
: >
: >ASUS P4R800-V Deluxe motherboard.
: >onboard SATA/IDE Raid controller (SIS 180)
: >
: >Ive tried so much stuff I cant list it all, but a summary of what ive
: > tried is:
: >Knoppix boot cd (with various boot params) ... no luck
: >Gentoo minimal install CD
: >Custom Gentoo CD (gen2raid)
: >Slackware 10
: >
: >I have slack installed on a 160 GB disk, on the other IDE controller, and
: > have built many kernels, and tried many stock kernels (including
: > ataraid.i). Ive compiled sata_sis (the driver for sis 180) modules, and
: > in the kernel. Ive compiled libata into the kernel, and modules.
: >Ive tried dmraid (and device mapper). I get "No Sofware RAID disks"
: > message. I dont even know how these drives will appear exactly, but none
: > of the kernels Ive used, or modules Ive loaded have shown the 2 raid
: > disks in dmesg (but it does show the controller loading, and 2 controller
: > channels.)
: >
: >So, Im also confused about what is software raid, soft-hardware raid... It
: >sholdnt be that hard to setup!! but yet it is.
: >
: >To compund things, Ive read so many docs relating (but not quite right for
: > my setup,) some docs are 2 years old, some dont use my hardware, some use
: > my controller, but not ide, ... its been really frustrating.
: >
: >So, It seems the current issue is that I simply cannot see these drive
: > under linux. once I can see the drives, I may actually be able to use
: > them. If someone has a clue how/what I need to do... please let me
: > know...
: >
: >
: >Jamie
:
: Jamie,
:     A common thing that you have to do with the sudo-raid cards is tell
: the kernel not to probe the bus for the raid cards. Try adding the
: following to the kernel line in your grub.conf file:
:
: hde=noprobe hdg=noprobe
Seems I read someting like this at one point. I also read about dissbling 
acpi, apic, and lapic. When I tried disableing acpi, I got a flood of 
messages in dmesg, and no help. 

Im using lilo, so I added the apppend line 
append="hde=noprobe hdf=noprob hdg=noprobe"

and it did disable them as you can see here from my dmesg:
(sorry... not being able to paste..) Ok.. now I can paste...

Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe 
hdg=noprobe
ide_setup: hde=noprobe
ide_setup: hdf=noprobe
ide_setup: hdg=noprobe

:
: Another option would be to just use software raid. In the testing I've
: done I have rarely seen much differnce between these lightweight raid
: controllers and software raid. Now a real hardware raid controller
: (think 3Ware) is a completely different story.

Thats what Ive been thinking, however, It looks like I wont be able to do 
either till I can use the drives!

I'll send a message to the list with my current dmesg output.. maybe maybe 
something will be obvious ? 

BTW, I have searched errors in my dmesg, and Ive found 2 other other people 
with the same issue, and both posts had no replys with how to fix...

Jamie

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: Gar;
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: Garl
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