PDC20378 - Help :(

[tlc]

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 12:32 -0500, tlc wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 12:24 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > Aha!  Ok, now this is making sense.  The real problem is that the kernel 
> > is not recognizing your two PATA drives at all, therefore, dmraid has no 
> > drives to detect as a raid.
> 
> > This isn't really related to dmraid, so I am not sure if this is the 
> > correct place to discuss it, but if I were you, I'd unplug the sata 
> > drive and see if you can get the kernel to recognize the pata drives in 
> > some fashion.
> > 
> 
> :) correct. the PDC20378 can have either SATA drives or PATA drives. My
> SATA drive is on the ICH5 controller not on the fake raid. 
> 
> I was passed to this list from the RH list and the fedora list ... is
> there a libata list :)
> 
> I am configuring the patched 2.6.15rc1 kernel now, I am hoping the patch
> to the libata driver will do it.
> 
> I'll keep everyone posted
> 
well .. the machine does not boot on the new kernel .. but I get the
feeling its a good not booting, like its seeing the new hard drives and
screwing up the device order ...

> Thanks.
> 
> > tlc wrote:
> > > Ok, let me start over, as I said before I posted my full message to this
> > > list before and only posted a brief problem this time.
> > > 
> > > Here is a link to the full post ..
> > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-October/msg02838.html
> > > notice the misuse of the word to .. it should be two .. sorry
> > > 
> > > The PDC20378 is a 'fake' raid , so it does have a bios but it is a
> > > software raid. There are 2 PATA IDE drives attached. 
> > > 
> > > I know very well that I can not RAID a single drive.
> > > 
> > 
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