Hi, On Fri, Mar 02 2001 at 10:21 +0100, Robert Stragies wrote:
I am glad to hear about the success with the promise, althogh my setup may be more complicated...
My wish list
ide0 (onboard) NO devices ide1 (onboard) NO devices ide2 (promise) - hde: 10 gig drive - hdf: No device or a mirror of hde ide3 (promise) - hfg: No device or a mirror of hde - hdh: No device
Is it a better idea, to put the mirror-drive of hde on ide2 too, or is is better, to put it on a seperate ide-header, like ide3?
I know, i have to enable booting from offboard chipsets in the bios. I know, this is possible to do this under win with the hardware functionality of the promise controller. I am kinda sure, i can do this with linux using md-util or something similar in software, but the goal is to use the promise hardware to do this....
Are you asking if Linux can be booted from a drive attached to ide2 or ide3? Or is mirroring the problem? I don't know about the second question, the first one can be answered with yes, though. Just make sure your kernel supports the Promise Ultra 66---depending on what kernel you use this may require Andre Hedrick's IDE patches (you need them for non-SuSE versions of 2.2.x but not for SuSE kernels or for 2.4.x). Then you'll have to switch some BIOS setting (in my Award BIOS it's `HDD Sequence SCSI/IDE First: SCSI'). That's it. Ciao, Stefan -- Stefan Troeger o _ _ _ stefan@troeger.st __o __o /_ _ \o (_)__/o (_) _`<, _`<, _>(_) (_)/<_ _| \ _|/' / (_)/(_) (_)/(_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_