Hi there,
I'm trying to use the raid function of my motherboard (abit vp6) which has a HPT370 controller.
I compiled the kernel with HPTP370 support & also the support for HPT370 raid.
Everything seems to be working correctly, but i don't have the /dev/ataraid devices.
My kernel does shows it detected the harddisks correctly:
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
HPT370: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 70
HPT370: chipset revision 3
HPT370: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
hda: Maxtor 5T060H6, ATA DISK drive
hde: Maxtor 5T030H3, ATA DISK drive
hdg: Maxtor 5T030H3, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide2 at 0xd000-0xd007,0xd402 on irq 11
ide3 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xdc02 on irq 11
hda: 120103200 sectors (61493 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=7476/255/63, UDMA(100)
hde: 60030432 sectors (30736 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=59554/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdg: 60030432 sectors (30736 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=59554/16/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 > hda2
hde: unknown partition table
hdg: unknown partition table
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ataraid/d0: unknown partition table
Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01
Drive 0 is 29311 Mb
Drive 1 is 29311 Mb
Raid array consists of 2 drives.
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Did i forget anything? Do i have to create the /dev/ataraid devices myself?
Thanks,
Jeroen
Hi Jeroen
> I'm trying to use the raid function of my motherboard (abit vp6) which has a HPT370 controller.
> I compiled the kernel with HPTP370 support & also the support for HPT370 raid.
>
> Everything seems to be working correctly, but i don't have the /dev/ataraid devices.
> My kernel does shows it detected the harddisks correctly:
[schnipp]
> ataraid/d0: unknown partition table
> Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.01
> Drive 0 is 29311 Mb
> Drive 1 is 29311 Mb
> Raid array consists of 2 drives.
[schnapp]
> Did i forget anything? Do i have to create the /dev/ataraid devices myself?
Yes, yes - http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/pdcraid/ataraidhowto.html
>From the page - "Currently, only RAID level 0 (striping) is supported, for
the Promise Fasttrak(tm) and Highpoint HPT370 series of IDE RAID
controllers." - everything else is well explained.
You may also use the closed source linux drivers from
http://www.highpoint-tech.com, if you need full support.
Bye
Jan-Marek