using raid ide channels for regular ide usage

A_White2k · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 9

Hello,

I have a Soyo p4x400 ultra platinum edition motherboard that has onboard highpoint raid. I've read on their site that yto use the 2 raid ide channels as regular ide channels, all you have to do is enable onboard raid, and don't put them in any kind of raid array. So i did that. when booting the kernel, it detects the drives, 1 maxtor 30gb and 1 maxtor 60gb, as hde and hde respectivly. but while partitioning the disks with cfidisk, while writing it takes a really long time, and when i close cfdisk, and the try to open it, it says it failed reading the device. after a reboot, i can cfdisk into it again, and it recognizes that partitions that i wrote onto it earlier, so i formatted it to reiserfs. that finished in a record SLOW time. but when i goto mount the drive, the command 'mount /dev/hdf1 /mnt/stuf' doesn't work and the command 'mount -t reiserfs /dec/hdf1 /mnt/stfu' gives me a INPUT/OUTPUT error.
Am i doing something wron, or is there a fix to this that i know nothing about.
Thanks
A_White2k

A_White2k · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 9

Bump, i really need some help

plasmaroo · Retired Dev Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 50

OK...

Why don't you stripe them? Then enable ATARAID support and use /dev/ataraid/disc0/disc to partition it. For that use /dev/ataraid/disc0/partZ to access partition #Z...

I hope you ARE using the Linux HighPoint drivers, right?

A_White2k · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 9

I don't really want to stripe the disks, these are just extra hard disks i have, i have a 120GB with gentoo installed on it, i just want to use my 60GB and my 40GB as extra storage. I don't know what you are talking about in the way of highpoint drivers. The install doc said enable these options for raid, i did that, yet they still aren't working. heck, i'd be happy not even having them in raid, but they are not being correctly read from the raid ide channels. Does anyone have the same problem i'm having. Can someone help me with this problem. I'm a semi-beginner and have been working with gentoo for the last 2 months, i just can't figure out this raid stuff. Please anybody, i'll take all the help i can get!

A_White2k

plasmaroo · Retired Dev Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 50

Then how are you accessing them? You should use /dev/hdX for cfdisking...

Anyway, do you have ReiserFS support enabled in the kernel, as it doesn't sound like that? If not, just use ext3 or build it into the kernel/module...

mke2fs -m 0 -J /dev/hdX#

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 1:38 am Post subject:

If you are not using striping (raid0) or mirroring (raid1), you do not need the raid drivers in your kernel, but you DO need drivers for the highpoint chip :

A_White2k · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 9

I am using a 120GB harddrive that is using reiserfs, so i know its not the reiserfs problem. And i have that chipset support built into the kernel. its just when i try to mount thereis a input/output error
so something is not registering. I was in the gentoo irc chan, and someone said somthing about going to highpoints site, and getting new drivers because the ones in the kernel don't work. has anybody heard anything about that. does anyone know how to do that?

Thanks again,

A_White2k

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 2:33 am Post subject:

gentoo-sources does not work properly with ataraid, I'm using ac-sources instead.
This should not affect you if you are not using ataraid, but switching kernel sources may be worth a shot anyway.