Support in kernel for Raid controller
From: Edward Diener No Spam (eldiener_no_spam_here_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 09/13/05
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:37:59 GMT
I have my hard disks off of an HPT 374 Raid controller but I do not have Raid
turned on, and am just using the Raid controller as an IDE controller because I
have non-hard disks off of my normal IDE controller. Two of the hard disks also
are larger than the 137 GB limit but my BIOS integrated with the Raid BIOS
supports this.
I have been having hard disk problems with some distributions of Linux on my
machine. I strongly suspect it has to do with support for the HPT 374
controller. Highpoint has an open source distribution of the latest release of
their controller for Linux. Although I am a programmer with much experience,
even with drivers on PC-DOS/Windows, I have little experience with Linux and
none with integrating drivers with the kernel. My questions are:
1) How can one determine from the distribution whether, and at what level, it
support the HPT 374 controller ?
2) I have no problems with 'make' etc. to actually create the driver from the
supplied source code but the rest of the terminology, in the readme.txt
instructions to the source, of integrating this driver with the kernel is pretty
new to me. I can of course ask her but I was wondering if there are good sources
anywhere, Internet, books, whatever, where I can learn the usual rules about
building an external driver and integrating it with the kernel ?
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