Steve Fosdick wrote:
Interesting. Which distro? Have you tried any other X config tools - there is also XF86Setup, Xconfigurator (Redhat) anXious (debian).
Which debian? Potato? For potato I beleive there is a version of the X server for the S3 chipset (which has many varients) and you would need to installed that - it is probably called xserver-s3
If you are prepared to face the possibility that X may refuser to work and that you'd have to come back for more help, I would install this new package (xserver-s3) and say yes when it asks you if you want to make it the default.
I'd be surprised if the outcome was any different...
If that doesn't do the trick, you could try the other X config tools or post your XF86Config for suggestions as to what to edit.
I tried running some of the other configuring tools. Not tried anXious. Potato is the distro. I'm happy to edit XF86Config by hand if I knew what was needed - I'll post tonight if that is ok? Will I need to hunt down a copy of xserverS3, or does debian have it lurking somewhere? Thanks, Jenny.
Anyone played with IDE Raid and Linux or solid state hard disks? Darren
D wrote:
Anyone played with IDE Raid and Linux or solid state hard disks?
Played with IDE raid on an Abit board using the HighPoint driver. Couldn't make it work with Linux, but I gather the Promise one does, albeit with a binary-only DeadRat driver. I don't use DeadRat, so... Cheers, Laurie. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com PGP key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
D wrote:
Anyone played with IDE Raid and Linux or solid state hard disks?
Played with IDE raid on an Abit board using the HighPoint driver. Couldn't make it work with Linux, but I gather the Promise one does, albeit with a binary-only DeadRat driver. I don't use DeadRat, so...
Thanks for that! I dont use it either (Slack is our main choice) I'll leave that for now then thanks Darren
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Laurie Brown Sent: 08 October 2001 12:46 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] IDE Raid
D wrote:
Anyone played with IDE Raid and Linux or solid state hard disks?
Played with IDE raid on an Abit board using the HighPoint driver. Couldn't make it work with Linux, but I gather the Promise one does, albeit with a binary-only DeadRat driver. I don't use DeadRat, so...
Cheers, Laurie.
from groups.google.com http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=3QHC6.3037%24CO5.528506%40news01. chello.no The only distro that recognises HPT RAID controller is SuSE 7.1 with kernel 2.4.X. I have the EPOX matherboard with inbuilt HPT controller and works fine, both with and without RAID enabled. Mandrake 7.2 could not find the Disks, neither did REDHat 7.0. Aparantly there's a patch at http://www.highpoint-tech.com/ but I can't confirm it as I haven't looked. I'd like to get hardware raid working in Mandrake 8.1 coz I got 2 nice shiny new IBM 46.1Gb ATA100 drives begging for it. :-) Cheers, BJ
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, D wrote:
Anyone played with IDE Raid and Linux or solid state hard disks?
Do you mean hardware RAID or the software variety? I have the latter built into the kernel on my main fileserver box but havn't played with getting it working yet. I may have a bash at it tonight so watch this space. Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam
Adam Bower wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, D wrote:
Anyone played with IDE Raid and Linux or solid state hard disks?
Do you mean hardware RAID or the software variety? I have the latter built into the kernel on my main fileserver box but havn't played with getting it working yet. I may have a bash at it tonight so watch this space.
There's a "new" breed of mobos which have a sort of hardware/software RAID built-in. It's hardware in as much as there are two extra IDE UDMA 100 channels on the board, and in that there's a dedicated processor to do the biz, and software in that it requires an OS driver to make it all happen. They support RAID 0, 1 and 0+1, all done in a little utility called at boot time. Support in Linux is currently "limited". I tried with the HPT370 chip in SuSE 7.1 and 7.2 and still couldn't get it to run reliably. Cheers, Laurie. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com PGP key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Laurie Brown wrote:
There's a "new" breed of mobos which have a sort of hardware/software RAID built-in. It's hardware in as much as there are two extra IDE UDMA 100 channels on the board, and in that there's a dedicated processor to do the biz, and software in that it requires an OS driver to make it all happen. They support RAID 0, 1 and 0+1, all done in a little utility called at boot time. Support in Linux is currently "limited". I tried with the HPT370 chip in SuSE 7.1 and 7.2 and still couldn't get it to run reliably.
Yeah, I know about them. What I am interested in is the state of software RAID in the kernel. It's been there for ages, I just havn't got around to playing with it yet, has anyone else? I would have a go now but then I would have to find a new home for ~10Gb of Mp3s. Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam
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