[CentOS] megaide support for 4.2

Thu Dec 29 13:14:37 UTC 2005
Kris Buytaert <mlkb at x-tend.be>

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.  

Replyhing to myselve.

It seems you have to use dmraid

[root at cnode1 init.d]# dmraid -s
*** Active Set
name   : lsi_cdhajaiciia
size   : 78165359
stride : 128
type   : stripe
status : ok
subsets: 0
devs   : 1
spares : 0
*** Active Set
name   : lsi_cdhajaiciib
size   : 78165359
stride : 128
type   : stripe
status : ok
subsets: 0
devs   : 1
spares : 0
*** Active Set
name   : lsi_cdhajaiciic
size   : 78165359
stride : 128
type   : stripe
status : ok
subsets: 0
devs   : 1
spares : 0
*** Active Set
name   : lsi_cdhajaiciid
size   : 78165359
stride : 128
type   : stripe
status : ok
subsets: 0
devs   : 1
spares : 0


show the devices but still I can put an ext3 filesystem on my /dev/hdd1
but I can't mount it .


Anyone got a clue .. ?

greetz

Kris

> 
> In 2.6 I can't access more than my /dev/hda , I can see my other 4, I
> can create filesystems on them, but I can't mount them
> 
> 
> Anyone knows how to use these on a 2.6 kernel (Centos 4.2)
> 
> greetings
> 
> Kris
> 
> 
> 00:02.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 0649 Ultra ATA/100
> PCI to ATA Host Controller (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Integrated Ultra ATA-100
> IDE RAID Controller
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
>         I/O ports at 2010 [size=8]
>         I/O ports at 2018 [size=4]
>         I/O ports at 2020 [size=8]
>         I/O ports at 2028 [size=4]
>         I/O ports at 2030 [size=16]
>         Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
> 
-- 
Kris Buytaert <mlkb at x-tend.be>