PDC20378 - Help :(

[tlc]

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 10:58 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> The dmraid utility is for recognizing drives configured for raid use and 
> setting up the kernel to access them correctly.  From the information 
> you provided in your last post, you do not have two drives which can be 
> or are configured for use as a raid.  I asked you before if you had 
> created a raid volume in the bios utility and you said yes, but you 
> can't do that if you only have a single sata drive ( you can't raid with 
> a usb drive ).
> 

For your amusement ...
http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm


> Unless you have more than those two drives that you listed in your last 
> email, then you aren't going to be setting up a raid any time soon.  Do 
> you have more drives that aren't being recognized at all by linux?
> 
> tlc wrote:
> > The on board PDC20378 is not a true hardware RAID. But, yeah this is the
> > problem. There is no device created. The controller is supported and has
> > a driver, and supposedly has had a driver since the 2.4 kernel. The
> > system detects the card loads the driver but can not find any devices. I
> > am not expecting to find one RAID device created, I know its a software
> > RAID controller ( basically ) I don't care, I just want to be able to
> > use the controller.
> > 
> > It looks like the driver is only recognizing the SATA port on the
> > controller and not the PATA port. You can use either or. So it sees the
> > controller but no attached devices.
> > 
> > 
> 
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