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

[Mr O]

Software RAID is more of a pain in the arse to get going on your
boot drives. I do as BobC does and have a seperate boot drive
for the OS and soft mirrored drives for the data. Odds are if
it's in the kernel all you have to do is build it in instead of
a module and DON"T FORGET TO ADD RAID SUPPORT (a mistake I've
done rebuilding kernels forcing to drop in and rebuild again),
and the drives should pick up on boot. I wouldn't mind taking a
look at it for you some time. I just need to be a little less
busy. 



--- Linux Rocks! <linux at rocksolidnetworks.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 January 2005 05:23 pm, larry price wrote:
> : On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:42:23 -0500, Linux Rocks!
> :
> : <linux at rocksolidnetworks.com> wrote:
> : > This is my hardware:
> : >
> : > ASUS P4R800-V Deluxe motherboard.
> : > onboard SATA/IDE Raid controller (SIS 180)
> : >
> : >
> : > 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.
> :
> : usually to setup a hardware raid you'll need to run the
> manufacturers
> : provided tool to register the disks and format the RAID
> partitions,
> : once you've done that the disks should show up if you have
> working
> : drivers.
> 
> yeah, I did that in xp, and it was working. 
> 
> Part of the issue is that its not a true hardware controller.
> Nearest I can 
> tell, its what they call fakeraid. from what Ive read, it
> should be able to 
> be used as a hardware raid with the sata_sis driver, but I
> havnt seen that 
> yet. Another part of the problem is that the controller runs
> SATA, and IDE, 
> and most ifnot all the docs ive read dont talk about setting
> up ide drives.
> 
> 
> I can also set it up as just software raid (bypassing the raid
> bios i guess). 
> but i havnt see that working under linux yet either.
> 
> also, I should mention, Ive tried removing the raid (in the
> raid bios), to use 
> them as regular disks (which btw is mentioned in that sis SATA
> RAID manual), 
> and I still cant see the disks...
>  
> Im not sure where they will appear, some docs I read mention
> /dev/ataraid, 
> some /dev/md, or even /dev/hde, /dev/hdg. but ive seen none of
> that(although 
> I have seen md, and ataraid in my dev dir...)
> 
> :
> : Software RAID uses the host computer to manage all the
> parity checking etc.
> : But since you have the hardware ...
> 
> yeah, from what Ive read, the linux software raid works better
> than these 
> types of raid controllers... Right now, id settle for working!
> but i would 
> like to compare and see for myself.
> 
> If I can figure out how to access the disks at all, it will be
> easier!




		
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