I am having a problem during install of centos 3.4 I am getting an error which says:
"The partition table on device /dev/sdb is of unexpected type loop for your architecture. Do you want to reinitialize the drive?"
Searching google i found:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90635
Which was from a while ago and its currently in closed status with no resolution provided?? Does anyone have any more info about this?
I currently have FC3 installed on this machine and /dev/sdb is indeed working just fine. sdb is a sata drive connected to a promise controller on my motherboard. sda is also connected to this controller and it gets detected just fine.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
-Jim
Dear all,
Anyone have experience using Hight Point Rocketraid 464 on a CentOs 3.3 system? High Point drivers seem to only support a really outdated kernel version and I am having problems getting the system to recognise the raid card (and thus the whole raid).
Any assistance is appreciated.
Regards CM
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Ho Chaw Ming wrote:
Dear all,
Anyone have experience using Hight Point Rocketraid 464 on a CentOs 3.3 system? High Point drivers seem to only support a really outdated kernel version and I am having problems getting the system to recognise the raid card (and thus the whole raid).
I'm using one as an extra ide controller with out using raid on the card. I just use software raid instead. I never got it to work in linux. Tried to compile the drivers a few times but they always failed.
- Wade
We had a RH 7.3 system that we were using highpoint cards in. That took a while to get working correctly a year ago or so. Moving to Centos we were not able to get them to work correctly so we went with the 3ware 8500 series (one 4 port and one 2 port) and it is working like a charm.
I think the HPT was a rocketraid 1640.
Good luck if you stick it out with the HPT controller.
Andrew
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@caosity.org [mailto:centos-bounces@caosity.org]On Behalf Of Wade Bowlin Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 4:11 AM To: CentOS discussion and information list Subject: Re: [Centos] CentOS 3.3 and High Point Raid Cards
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Ho Chaw Ming wrote:
Dear all,
Anyone have experience using Hight Point Rocketraid 464 on a CentOs 3.3 system? High Point drivers seem to only support a really outdated kernel version and I am having problems getting the system to recognise the raid card (and thus the whole raid).
I'm using one as an extra ide controller with out using raid on the card. I just use software raid instead. I never got it to work in linux. Tried to compile the drivers a few times but they always failed.
- Wade _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Sunday 09 January 2005 22:59, Ho Chaw Ming wrote:
Anyone have experience using Hight Point Rocketraid 464 on a CentOs 3.3 system? High Point drivers seem to only support a really outdated kernel version and I am having problems getting the system to recognise the raid card (and thus the whole raid).
According to High Point's website, it's an HPT374 chip.
See http://www.gulu.net/krd/hpt_rocketraid404_linux.html for some information. The links referenced are incorrect; go to http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr464.htm for the drivers. Linux drivers, a GUI and a CLI RAID manager are available for download. Red Hat 7.2 is listed as supported; RHEL3/CentOS is based on this dist, so the drivers should work.
From what I can see, the HPT374 drivers are available in source form; see http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS%20%2B%20Driver/hpt374/Linux/hpt374-openso... for them.
And be sure to note the following note in the included readme.txt: If the kernel contains built-in IDE support for HPT374 controller, you must disable the kernel support before using this driver. You can either rebuild a kernel without HPT374 support, or use boot parameters like "hdx=noprobe" to disable the built-in driver.
There is a proprietary binary-only 'raid.o' module used in the opensource drivers; this probably is just a higher-performance software raid. Standard Linux software RAID works fine with HighPoint chips; I am in fact using a motherboard with an HPT370 controller on board, but I'm not using the RAID features. The box is running the ScientificLinux version of the RHEL3 kernel and it Just Works. I can provide a dmesg excerpt if you'd like.
RHEL 3 is based off RH9 not RH7
Lamar Owen wrote:
On Sunday 09 January 2005 22:59, Ho Chaw Ming wrote:
Anyone have experience using Hight Point Rocketraid 464 on a CentOs 3.3 system? High Point drivers seem to only support a really outdated kernel version and I am having problems getting the system to recognise the raid card (and thus the whole raid).
According to High Point's website, it's an HPT374 chip.
See http://www.gulu.net/krd/hpt_rocketraid404_linux.html for some information. The links referenced are incorrect; go to http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr464.htm for the drivers. Linux drivers, a GUI and a CLI RAID manager are available for download. Red Hat 7.2 is listed as supported; RHEL3/CentOS is based on this dist, so the drivers should work.
From what I can see, the HPT374 drivers are available in source form; see http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS%20%2B%20Driver/hpt374/Linux/hpt374-openso... for them.
And be sure to note the following note in the included readme.txt: If the kernel contains built-in IDE support for HPT374 controller, you must disable the kernel support before using this driver. You can either rebuild a kernel without HPT374 support, or use boot parameters like "hdx=noprobe" to disable the built-in driver.
There is a proprietary binary-only 'raid.o' module used in the opensource drivers; this probably is just a higher-performance software raid. Standard Linux software RAID works fine with HighPoint chips; I am in fact using a motherboard with an HPT370 controller on board, but I'm not using the RAID features. The box is running the ScientificLinux version of the RHEL3 kernel and it Just Works. I can provide a dmesg excerpt if you'd like.
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 21:46, William Warren wrote:
RHEL 3 is based off RH9 not RH7
Yes, of course, brain drain there. Been home sick all day; RHAS2.1 was off of RH7.2. Thanks.
RHL9 is also listed for the latest HPT374 drivers, so, other than the thinko on the version numbers things are ok there....
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