Hello.
Got here http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?i=105a3319
As http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html#tx4 calls it
soft/accelerator raid version
Going to use latest kernel from /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/
But bios even with keyboard unplugged requires me to press one of 2 keys
to either define array OR continue booting in case no array is defined.
What would you recommend me to do?
- stay with ft3xx module from promise and 10 level RAID array and not use
sata_promise?
- define some array in bios and completely ignore that fact and use
sata_promise, bypass bios and define custom linux soft raid arrays?
- anything else (no bios flashing and no hw hacking)?
AlL.
please CC me... but anyway if you forget i will have a look into archive.
[email protected] wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Got here http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?i=105a3319
> As http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html#tx4 calls it
> soft/accelerator raid version
> Going to use latest kernel from /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/
>
> But bios even with keyboard unplugged requires me to press one of 2 keys
> to either define array OR continue booting in case no array is defined.
>
> What would you recommend me to do?
> - stay with ft3xx module from promise and 10 level RAID array and not use
> sata_promise?
> - define some array in bios and completely ignore that fact and use
> sata_promise, bypass bios and define custom linux soft raid arrays?
> - anything else (no bios flashing and no hw hacking)?
You can use dmraid or ataraid, and define a JBOD array consisting of one
disk in each array (i.e. one JBOD per disk)
Jeff
Try to define 0 level RAID consisting of one disk only.
This works with Promise PATA, I dunno about SATA.
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:41:37 +0200, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Got here http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?i=105a3319
> As http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html#tx4 calls it
> soft/accelerator raid version
> Going to use latest kernel from /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/
>
> But bios even with keyboard unplugged requires me to press one of 2 keys
> to either define array OR continue booting in case no array is defined.
>
> What would you recommend me to do?
> - stay with ft3xx module from promise and 10 level RAID array and not use
> sata_promise?
> - define some array in bios and completely ignore that fact and use
> sata_promise, bypass bios and define custom linux soft raid arrays?
> - anything else (no bios flashing and no hw hacking)?
>
> AlL.
>
> please CC me... but anyway if you forget i will have a look into archive.
>
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On Friday 15 Oct 2004 15:41, you wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Got here http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?i=105a3319
> As http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html#tx4 calls it
> soft/accelerator raid version
> Going to use latest kernel from /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/
>
> But bios even with keyboard unplugged requires me to press one of 2 keys
> to either define array OR continue booting in case no array is defined.
>
> What would you recommend me to do?
> - stay with ft3xx module from promise and 10 level RAID array and not use
> sata_promise?
> - define some array in bios and completely ignore that fact and use
> sata_promise, bypass bios and define custom linux soft raid arrays?
If you define an array, AFAIK the controller doesn't do anything physically to
the discs. It's just the settings it tells the promise driver (thus software
RAID). If you define ANY array, the drives should still be detected by Linux
individually and you can use linux/md to RAID them.
This is how I'm doing it on my older PATA promise card.
> - anything else (no bios flashing and no hw hacking)?
>
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Friday 15 Oct 2004 15:41, you wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Got here http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?i=105a3319
>> As http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html#tx4 calls it
>> soft/accelerator raid version
>> Going to use latest kernel from /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/
>>
>> But bios even with keyboard unplugged requires me to press one of 2 keys
>> to either define array OR continue booting in case no array is defined.
>>
>> What would you recommend me to do?
>> - stay with ft3xx module from promise and 10 level RAID array and not use
>> sata_promise?
>> - define some array in bios and completely ignore that fact and use
>> sata_promise, bypass bios and define custom linux soft raid arrays?
>
> If you define an array, AFAIK the controller doesn't do anything physically to
> the discs. It's just the settings it tells the promise driver (thus software
> RAID). If you define ANY array, the drives should still be detected by Linux
> individually and you can use linux/md to RAID them.
for sanity purposes we generally define spanned volumes each composed of
one disk. this still bites you ocasionaly because the controller will
pause when one or more disks are missing which otherwise may or may not be
catostrophic ie if you have a software raid-5 raid 1 or 10 stripe it'll
probably do fine with one disk missing, but the promise will freak again.
> This is how I'm doing it on my older PATA promise card.
>
>> - anything else (no bios flashing and no hw hacking)?
non-raid sata or pata promise cards are darn cheap...
>
>
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