Re: Are Linux users all childish fools? What better reason to use Windows.
From: Charlie (some_where_over_the_at_rainbow.org)
Date: 08/06/04
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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 21:42:30 GMT
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 17:09:05 -0400, Ruel Smith wrote:
> Top posting... Tisk, tisk... As a Linux user here, you should know
> better.
Posting police alert.
You seem hyper sensetive towards protocol and less sensetive toward real
life.
You have a problem IMHO.
> Anyway, I run RAID on my XP. I hate long load times of games, so I run
> RAID. Disk I/O is the biggest bottleneck in the system, and wanted to
> open up that bottleneck. My setup is with 2 Maxtor ATA133 drives with
> 2MB cache. Going to newer, denser drives with 8MB cache should really
> bump up the speed. My current setup has almost been matched by a
> single newer drive sporting 8MB cache and denser platters.
Running RAID does not guarentee anything you are looking for.
Read up on RAID and get back to us.
BTW the 8mb cache WILL help things by a LOT.
> As for the OP, Windows does not support the 6410 chipset. Via supports
> it. Microsoft does not support hardware. Linux, OTOH, does support
> much hardware natively.
Stick a diskette, which comes with the motherboard BTW in the drive.
Real tough huh?
> The controller is supported for Linux by Via:
>
> http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=297
>
> The controller for SuSE 8.2 should work.
>
> ___
Should work?
Can you assure me before I screw up my system that it WILL WORK?
And as for Windows, I put a diskette in the drive during install and THAT
IS IT.
It says "Found VIA 6410, would like to use this hardware?" I say yes and I
am done.
For Linux?
3) Driver Installation
=========================
== Driver Installation ==
=========================
*Pre-Install
The package include source code files, so we need to compile a driver
according to your kernel version.
Before begin to compile, make sure that
1. You have installed the kernel source package
2. Kernel source default directory is /usr/src/linux, please check it.
If your default kernel source directory is not /usr/src/linux,
create a link:
# ln -s linux2.4 linux
3. Assume you have unzip this package to a diretory /tmp/viamraid
*Compile/Install
1. compile the file, viamraid.o is the driver we need
# cd /tmp/viamraid/driver
# make
2. Install the driver
# make install
3. To use the driver, type:
#modprobe viamraid
If there are no other SCSI cards on the system, /dev/sda, sdb ... are
our devices.
4. To unuse the driver, type:
#rmmod viamraid
4) Install Operating System RedHat
To install RedHat Linux onto the RAID controller, we must have a driver
disk.
1. Prepare a driver disk:
The dd.sh is a shell script that help users to make driver disk easier
# cd /tmp/viamraid/driver
# chmod +x dd.sh
# ./dd.sh
Now dd.sh will create a driverdisk image file: driverdisk/viamraid.img
Insert a blank floppy disk and type
# dd if=driverdisk/viamraid.img of=/dev/fd0
Driverdisk is OK now.
2. Install OS:
Boot from redhat install CD, when it prompt "boot:", type:
linux dd
Or
linux expert
* Patch for RedHat 7.2
Because RedHat 7.2 need a update disk instead of driverdisk to install
we need to type "linux dd updates" instead of "linux dd"
5) Notes (TroubleShootings)
1). After I compile the driver successfully, and run "make install",
or try to install driver by "modprobe viamraid",module loading fails
and show message like this: "your kernel is 2.4.19, but the module
is compiled for 2.4.19-athlon", why?
Perhaps your CPU is Pentium 4, but you kernel source configured
CPU type as athlon, do the following
#cd /usr/src/linux
#make menuconfig ;here change the "processor type" to be the same
as your system, then recompile the driver.
2). For SuSE64bit linux, please make sure that your CPU type is 64bit.
So, its better to
#make nenuconfig
to change the CPU type to X86_64bit before compile the driver.
THAT is a complete MESS.......
And again, the versions are outdated and there is no statement
guarenteeing that it will work with Suse 9.1.
Are all these directories the same for Suse 9.1?
What other garbage do I have to install just to compile this thing?
What else is this going to mess up?
Are all kernel versions supported, or is this like Nvidia where changing
kernels screws the driver?
etc.................
> My apologies for posting from Windows, as my SuSE machine is down for
> a hardware upgrade. It'll be back online in about a week, when all the
> parts have arrived.
Who cares?
I read your message and take it for what it is.
I could care less where you post from.
Only tinfoil hat types dissect messages for trace info.
Sorry, but you prove that Windows is far superior in this particular case.
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