Adaptec 39320 and Raid0 array - System Can't See It (SCSI)

Macguyvok

Well, as the title indicates, I've figured out what SCSI stands for: "System Can't See It."

I'm in a rather unique perdicament. I recieved 2 seagate 36 gig HD's and an Adaptec 39320 SCSI card for X-mas (Yeah, I know it's early). Well, I used Norton Ghost to Clone my Windows and Linux Partion over to the RAID0 Array I' made. Not a moment too soon, as my failing IBM 75GXP died about a day latter in a spectacular death... (I knew it was going, but not quite like that.) So, my thought had been to simply fix Grub, and I'd be all set.... Oh No. Life's not that easy.

I have a gentoo 2004.1 LiveCD, and a 2004.3 LiveCD. Neither will load the aic79xx driver, which google searches told me would support the card. Hell, I have tried a slew of distros from yoper, to knoppix, to SUSE 9.1. None of them will load the driver, and I can't see the disk(s) at all. The closest I get is having the aic79xx driver complain about an insmod error, saying "device not found".

So, after failing, I needed a system to klinda work, so I did a re-install of XP on here... and now THAT works. So, I know it's not the card, or the arrya, or anything on the hardware level. Windows works. Why can't I get linux to work on it? Hell, if I have to re-install, I WILL. I'm not worried. I just want to have linux work. That's all.

Any thoughts?
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Macguyvok · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject:

Well, I'm still stuck. The 2.6.10-rc3 kernel reads the card, but not the raid0 array. I'm getting closer.... but how do I get raid0 to work?
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drescherjm · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 4:11 am Post subject:

Are you sure you have the correct driver loaded in the kernel for your card? I am not familiar with that card but it sounds like it is a BIOS based raid. I mean it does not have a cpu onboard to handle the raid like the more expensive cards. Basicaly it is a normal scsi card (with the same exact hardware as the non raid version of the card) with a bios that allows you to boot off a raid array to an operating system with a driver that will do a software raid on the card.
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