Installing on RAID

[chrispbrown2255]

I'm totally new to Fedora, I've played with redhat 8 and mandrake a bit so I know some basics. I have also managed to install Fedora onto two laptops in the past few days without any problems. My problem is this, I have three hard drives on a RocketRAID 133 (HPT372 chipset), an 80GB just sat there for the faster bus (holding Win2K, a fat 32 partition, linux / and swap, and two 40GB drives in RAID 0. I can't seem to find any specific Fedora drivers for the card, but I have RH9 drivers. When I inserted the CD I passed the following options
linux expert hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe hdg=noprobe hdg=noprobe
Anaconda booted and asked for the driver disk, then read it an stopped doing anything.
I then tried to pass
linux dd
The same thing happened.
Does it matter that I'm using RH9 drivers? Also I've got a dual athlon setup, are the athlon drivers still ok, or should I go back to the i686 just incase?

[jtang613]

I've not used the HighPoint drivers, but I've got a good deal of experience with Promise drivers. If the driver disks are anything alike, then the RH9 driver will not load in FC*. These drivers are kernel-specific, so you'll either need a module for the kernel you plan on installing, or the module source code, so you can build your own driver disk.

[chrispbrown2255]

I've got the source code for the drivers, but I have never compiled anyting in Linux before, and have very limited experience with C (not even C++). The code came with some instructions, which appear to be a little on the short side.

3) Build the driver (example for RedHat 7.2 i686 type kernel):

# make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10

Available make options:

KERNELDIR=...
Specify kernel source directory.

SUPPORT_SATA=1
Build driver for RocketRAID 1520 S-ATA controller.

NON_RAID=1
Build driver without RAID support.

In the instructions it says that the target kernel must have the same config as the compiling kernel. I havn't got a working kernel on my machine, but I have access to a laptop running on an athlon mobile. will that do to compile the kernel, becuase ideally I want smp support?

[jtang613]

Check out the instructions that I posted for compiling a driver disk for Promise FastTrak cards. There may be a few differences (different code, different kernel), but the instructions should help.

http://members.rogers.com/sith.warrior/build.htm

[chrispbrown2255]

Thanks for that. I read through it last night and got scared, then went to bed. I re-read it this morning and thought that I'd do an install of RH9 so that I can compile a new driver disk, and copy the fedora kernel over. On installation I found that even RH9 with the correct RH9 (even tried RH8 and 7 drivers) wouldn't touch my raid array. This left me with two choices, forget about using linux, or get rid of the raid. Since I use my computer mainly for processor intesive apps, and not huge amounts of data are transferred, I'm going to lose my array.

[easyray]

After much anguish with highpoint drivers, I tried Fedora's software raid installation and it appears to equal highpoint's performance without all the hassle.
easyray
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