[CentOS] megaide support for 4.2

Thu Dec 29 15:17:14 UTC 2005
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:11 +0100, Kris Buytaert wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 07:54 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:14 +0100, Kris Buytaert wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 12:33 +0100, Kris Buytaert wrote:
> > > > In 2.4 there used to be a megaide driver for certain ata raid
> > > > controllers.  
> > > 
> 
> > > 
> > 
> > That would be very strange....
> > 
> > what does this show:
> > 
> > fdisk -l /dev/hdd
> > 
> > (is it full size?)
> > 
> [root at cnode1 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/hdd
> 
> Disk /dev/hdd: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdd1               1       77545    39082648+  83  Linux
> 
> [root at cnode1 ~]# dmsetup ls
> lsi_cdhajaiciid (253, 3) 
> lsi_cdhajaiciic (253, 2)
> lsi_cdhajaiciib (253, 1)
> lsi_cdhajaiciia (253, 0)
> 
> Yep it is 
> > > 
> > > Anyone got a clue .. ?
> > > 
> > 
> > There is improved megaraid support for the new kernel here from
> > upstream:
> > 
> > http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/
> > 
> 
> Right nice link with no docs or pointers what 
> Downloading .. I`ll be reporting later on my progress :)
> 

Right ... that is because that is a RHEL test kernel ... and that is the
pre-release RHEL4 test place.

No support from us (or them) on those kernels ... just a place to get
the cutting edge testing RHEL kernels to see if they fix your problems.

I would NOT use that in production :)
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