Ide raid driver for HPT372 and 2.6 kernel?

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Icer · Post by **Icer** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 1:24 pm

I'm just wondering that could I somehow use/port hpt372/370 raid drivers from xfs-sources kernelmodules to 2.6 kernel. I can use my hd's as an raid 0 array when using XFS-sources kernel, but I have not succeeded in using other kernels sofar. I think I'm not skilled enough to extract the neccessary modules from xfs-sources modules. But I can prolly dig up which modules are necessary. So in short could this be done?

shift · Post by **shift** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:12 pm

Not sure if this would help, but it's some Linux downloads from HighPoint Tech's site.

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/b372.htm

The Linux driver downloads include a HighPoint RAID Management software, maybe that's what you need?

Icer · Post by **Icer** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:25 pm

I went through the 2.4.24-xfs sources and the drivers directory. It contains raid subdirectory and it contains hptraid and ataraid drivers. Those 2 are the drivers which are missing from the other kernels. Well I have only checked 2.6.4mm and gentoo 2.6.3 sources. It'd be nice to be able to use these drivers built in other kernels.

Of course there are instructions how to patch kernels or howto insmod those drivers but they are so confusing and complicated.

I might try the highpoint drivers from their website, but I've read on these forums that it might not be worth the trouble.

skyfolly · Post by **skyfolly** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:38 pm

shit, i am not even able to fdisk my raid devices.