Re: Installing on machine with IT8212 IDE-RAID chipset?
From: baskitcaise (baskitcaise_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/23/04
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Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 21:23:40 +0100
Outlook User adjusted his tin foil beanie and asbestos underwear to
write:
> Greetings. I would like to install Linux on my PC, which uses two
> hard drives in a mirrored IDE-RAID configuration. The array uses an
> ITE IT8212 chipset. A driver (both binary and source) are available
> at:
>
http://www.ite.com.tw/productInfo/Download.html#IT8212%20ATA133%20Controller
>
> A few questions:
>
> 1) Will the kernel recognize this IDE-RAID controller without my
> having to do anything special? ie. Can I install Fedora Core 2 or
> Gentoo or some other distribution and have it successfully install
> without either failing to see the array or corrupting the partitions
> already on the array?
I have the non raid version of this card and it will work fine with a
2.4 kernel after the modules have been compiled and inserted in the
initrd, but I have not used it to put the / on, I use it with a
seperate drive on each primary for my /home and /usr.
However if you are thinking of a 2.6 kernel then forget it, anything
over 2.6.3 and the modules will not compile, loads of errors that I
could not work around ( my C skills are still in the last century ) I
have mailed ITE this morning asking if they will update the source for
later kernels, but not got an answer yet ( I am on 2.6.5 Suse 9.1 ) so
at the moment 2 of my disks are useless unless I go back to 9.
Sorry not much help but just my experience, maybe the devs as ITE are
looking into it and may update the source I will post any reply I get
from them it must have been middle of the night in .tw when I mailed :)
-- Mark Iligitimi Non Carborundum! Twixt hill and high water, N.Wales, UK onfxvgpnvfr-ng-tzk-qbg-pb-hx
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