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felixZhu
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 Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 2:06 pm Post subject: I can't use ataraid in my AMD64 CPU.help |
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I use AMD64 minimal LiveCD to install gentoo linux on my AMD64 prosesor sytem(Opteron & Tyan Tomcat K8S).And I want to set Promise FastTrak TX4000 to do raid1.I tried gentoo doataraid & smp doataraid to boot the system,but it seems can not install correct drivers for the raid controller.I can not find any information about my raid controller in dmesg,and no /dev/ataraid.
Does gentoo AMD64 release suport Promise FastTrak TX4000?
Any one can help me? |
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felixZhu
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 3:28 am Post subject: NO one can give me some hint? |
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radagast
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 10:45 am Post subject: |
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i spent a week trying to install onto my onboard SATA raid...
and eventually realised that onboard raid is really just software raid.
so i made software raid partitions (with mdadm) and installed to them. much easier, and more flexible (you can have a single raid0 partition if you want, or add another disk to one of the partitions without reformatting the whole thing)
i know we got all excited when we bought our new motherboards with onboard raid, but we have to let it go. |
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blueworm
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| AFAIK all onboard RAID solutions promise etc... are software raid anyhow... |
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linuxrob
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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same thing happened to me.
Just disable raid support
then I did the following:
1. made a correct raidtab (there's an explanation somewhere in gentoo.org's tips and tricks section) consisting of two partitions from each drive, make them the same place and size for consistency. then make a boot partition
2. mkraid /dev/md0 and mke2fs to the boot partition
3. installed gentoo
4. compiled kernel with sata support in both the ata/ide drivers section and sata low level scsi drivers. also make sure scsi emulation is on. Then make sure raid is on and the types of raid you want are selected. this is all in menuconfig
5. install grub--static as normal onto the boot partition
do everything else normally. this is a pretty hackneyed explanation, but screw it, i've been up for 30 hours straight. |
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