Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 05:51:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 05:51:14 -0500 Received: from babsi.intermeta.de ([212.34.181.3]:39172 "EHLO babsi.intermeta.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 05:51:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:50:10 +0200 From: "Henning P . Schmiedehausen" To: Erik van Asselt Cc: Andre Hedrick , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Promise RAID controller howto? Message-ID: <20010329125010.M1809@forge.intermeta.de> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de In-Reply-To: <3AC31147.6035E09C@planet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3AC31147.6035E09C@planet.nl>; from "Erik van Asselt" on Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:41:11PM Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, as far as I can see (you're talking about the "rel.tgz" archive from the LinuxBETA directory, don't you?), this is just glue code for their binary only "ftlib.o" driver. No real open source here. Maybe Andre can work something from the header structures. But then again, the archive is dated 9/28/2000, it's not exactly new... Regards Henning On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:41:11PM +0200, Erik van Asselt wrote: > Hmmmmm i have the Promise raid source for 2.2 kernel modules so what do you mean > by opensource signatures > > i have it working for 2.2 kernels but i can't get it to work properly in 2.4 > So if someone want to look at the source !!! > it can be found on www.promise.com > > Assie > > Andre Hedrick schreef: > > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I know, that this is a FAQ and the Promise RAID controller card is not > > > yet usable as a RAID board under Linux 2.x but is there a way to use > > > the controller just like the UltraATA 100 controller? > > > > It is not a raid board ... it is a raid lie > > > > > I know, that "input high == UltraATA core, input low = RAID core" > > > according to Andre Hedrick but I really don't care about the RAID > > > core. I want to use this controller to drive JBOD. > > > > Wrong, if Promise will opensource the signatures then we map the software > > raid against that location and use Linux's soft-raid. > > > > > Can one do this? The disks need not to be interchangeable to other > > > controllers. Just be accessible. > > > > > > 2.2 solutions preferred, 2.4 ok. > > > > > > Regards > > > Henning > > > > > > -- > > > Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer > > > INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de > > > > > > Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de > > > D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20 > > > - > > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > > > > Andre Hedrick > > Linux ATA Development > > ASL Kernel Development > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ASL, Inc. Toll free: 1-877-ASL-3535 > > 1757 Houret Court Fax: 1-408-941-2071 > > Milpitas, CA 95035 Web: www.aslab.com > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/