For VIA 8237 SATA, there's two kernel drivers. One detects the drive
as an IDE; that driver's also deprecated, which explains why it's
being superceded by the 2nd driver that detects them as SCSI's.
On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:12:47 -0400, Kurt Guenther <kurtg@serent.com> wrote:
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> That's what I did. I disabled the Intel RAID controller, and did what
> you recommend. The kernel still detects the controller as it comes up
> as it appears in the boot messages and the 2 drives appear in
> /dev/sga^b. It works and it's fast, so I didn't argue.
>
> --Kurt
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> >>I have two SATA drives, but they showed up as /dev/sga and b. I
> >>thought this was due to the Intel controller, but it could be the
> >>kernel. Worth a look as this would explain all your problems (as you
> >>need to update /etc/raidtab).
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> >You'll be better off compiling the drivers into the kernel, setting the
> >partitions involved to the correct type (type fd), and letting the kernel
> >assemble the arrays during boot.
> >Won't matter what your devices show up as then.
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as an IDE; that driver's also deprecated, which explains why it's
being superceded by the 2nd driver that detects them as SCSI's.
On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:12:47 -0400, Kurt Guenther <kurtg@serent.com> wrote:
>
> That's what I did. I disabled the Intel RAID controller, and did what
> you recommend. The kernel still detects the controller as it comes up
> as it appears in the boot messages and the 2 drives appear in
> /dev/sga^b. It works and it's fast, so I didn't argue.
>
> --Kurt
>
>
>
>
> Mike Williams wrote:
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> >On Friday 03 September 2004 17:45, Kurt Guenther wrote:
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> >
> >>I have two SATA drives, but they showed up as /dev/sga and b. I
> >>thought this was due to the Intel controller, but it could be the
> >>kernel. Worth a look as this would explain all your problems (as you
> >>need to update /etc/raidtab).
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You'll be better off compiling the drivers into the kernel, setting the
> >partitions involved to the correct type (type fd), and letting the kernel
> >assemble the arrays during boot.
> >Won't matter what your devices show up as then.
> >
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