Re: PDC20267 + RAID can't find raid device

[William Thompson <wt@electro-mechanical.com>]

>   It works for me once I got the right options.  Did you enable the
> "fasttrak feature"
> 
> I'm using the following options in my .config:
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX=y
> CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST=y
> CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_PDC=y

Only difference is the fact I didn't enable BURST.  your other 3 options are
the same as mine.

The thing says:
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found

> /dev/ataraid/d0 devices, and the /dev/hd devices.  This makes for lots
> of fun in the Red Hat installer, and Cerberus.   

I'm using debian, but I'm not actually installing the system, I'm copying
from another.

> > After trying 2.4.19-pre10-ac2 I can finally use the PDC20267 controller,
> > however, it doesn't find any raid devices.
> > 
> > I have 2 quantum fireballlct10 05 on the controller (hde and hdg) and
> > created a stripe between these 2 disks in the controller's bios.
> > 
> > I can see both disks w/o problems.
> > 
> > I'd rather not use the linux software raid since you can't partition it.
> > 
> > IDE, PDC20267, FastTrak, and the raid driver are all compiled into the
> > kernel.
> > 
> > More info is available at request.
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