On Tuesday 19 August 2003 12:33 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:51 am, Felix Miata wrote: > > I looked at mandrakeuser.org and tldp.org and found nothing on this > > subject. Before I go looking anywhere else for non-Mandrake-specific > > coverage of this subject, anyone here know of good coverage on using > > Highpoint motherboard RAID with Mandrake? > > I have a Hpt372 on my motherboard and had to turn it off in the BIOS since > with standard 9.1, it causes a kernel panic that kills Mandrake. I did > recompile the kernel with the Highpoint drivers and got it to the point > where it wouldn't kernel panic when starting Linux but it still would not > see the hard drives on that controller.
I have used both the High Point drivers and the ataraid drivers with success. I dont recall having a kernel panic on the 9.x series mandrake, however the 8.x series I did. I have a Soyo PS4 Dragon Ultra. Diskdrake hoses the raid array when writing the partition table during an install. with Mandrake 8.x I had to use the highpoint drivers, as the Ataraid drivers would not function for me. With Mandrake 9.x the ataraid drivers finally worked, for the highpoint driver you had to disable some stuff and re-compile the kernel. I can access a fat32 and ntfs partition on the raid 0 array. The biggest drawback is I have never been able to boot from the array. I installed to a regular drive. Loaded the ataraid and hptraid modules so I could access the drive. Built an initrd with ataraid and hptraid (plus journaling FS and ext3) modules. Edit the lilo.conf so that it uses the new initrd and run lilo, then moved the installation to the raid 0 array. In this way if I ever have a problem with the array I can still boot linux off the regular drive and fix any problems. When all is done only the MBR and /boot are used off of the regular drive. Jack
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