irvine@vuosaari.hai.fi wrote:
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 02:21:48PM -0600, Curtis Rey wrote:
Is this an onboard interface for the promise chip or is this a pci card?
Onboard.
I don't believe believe that you will have to go to such extent to get it to work, especially if it's onboard because the raid arrays will most likely be setup at boot time by the mobo bios - at least it's that way with my Gigabyte GA-7VRXP board. Now the question about how SuSE/Linux will handle this is another story that I can't give any insight into -I have never done this. But I do know that on my board the raid can be setup by the bios and this should make it fairly straight forward for the Linux install/setup. I also believe that Linux will on do raid 1 and not 0, I could be wrong because this may have been overcome and I suspect that the 2.6.x kernel may fix this is it isn't already. I know that my onboard chip only does these two types. If your going for mirror (raid 1) then it should be simple enough (famous last words). It should be in the mobo manual (mine is).
You could be right about this method not being the quickest. In my first attempt to get this card working I started installing with both drives connected to the onboard promise connector interfaces.
After playing with the bios 4 a long time I got the thing to boot and all seemed ok, but I got a little confused about what to do next. Then my friend came along and we decided to try another approach. You can see the email I wrote at the following:
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Jan/0277.html
Have a look at this site:
Thanks for the link. I take a look.
I couldn't find alot in goolge YMMV.
And a big thanx for taking the time to look.
Take care.
t.irvine
Any time. Hope it's working, Cheers, Curtis. P.S. post agian if you get it working or not so it can be archived for future references. :)