[CentOS] megaide support for 4.2

Thu Dec 29 15:11:58 UTC 2005
Kris Buytaert <mlkb at x-tend.be>

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 :)

greetz


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Kris Buytaert <mlkb at x-tend.be>