Bug#286939: Bug#291928: 2.4.27: medley.o not recognising stripe set
Progress!!
I was inspired by this:
>I had a look at the source for the medley driver, and it doesn't seem
>to have been updated for quite some time, and the latest version seems
>to be both in the kernel.org and debian kernels. So it is likely that
>knoppix has the same driver. I confirmed that medly.c was the same for
>all of these kernels.
So I played around with the D-I, rebooting a bunch of times. I found
that I can actually get the medley driver working, if I boot into expert
mode (2.4) and modprobe the following modules in this exact order:
ide-core
siimage
ide-detect
ide-disk
ataraid
medley
- it finds the RAID set then, just like Knoppix. BUT, of course, it
finds them as hda and hdc, and I can't see my CD-ROMs (which are on a
via82cxxx controller - modprobing via82cxxx at this point does nothing,
since ide-detect has already run).
If I go the sata_sil route, the modules are
scsi_mod
libata
sata_sil
sd_mod
ataraid
medley
In this setup medley does not work - but I think the reason is simple:
it's not looking for scsi disks! I've not checked the source, but it
stands to reason that it's only expecting to look for raid arrays on
devices beginning 'hd' (and the sata_sil/sd_mod route enumerates the
drives as sda and sdb).
So my problem is not with medley at all, it's with ide-detect. If I load
ide-detect after loading both siimage AND via82cxxx, only the last set
of devices are found (ie. if I modprobe siimage first then via82cxxx,
only the CD-ROMs are round; if I modprobe via82cxxx first then siimage,
only the SATA drives are found).
If I could get ide-detect to find both sets of devices, I'm pretty sure
I could install ...
(or I could just try installing from two floppies, and not use the CD at
all!)
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