Re: HPT370A & Debian
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tirsdag 27. mai 2003, 19:49, skrev Axel Gerster:
> Hello,
>
> I've got an Highpoint HPT370A RAID Controller and I'd like
> to install a debian linux on it. / should like all other partitions
> reside on the mirroring raid. Can anyone tell me how to install it and
> how to make the needed initrd.img with the modules which is available from
> highpoint? I use the 2.4.20-1-k7 image.
Okay, my first reaction here was *DON'T*.
This is because I've been having nightmares about my troubles with a HPT372
controller for a year now, and suspect a HPT370A might be the same.
That aside... it eventually turned out to be a fried APIC chip, so...
First off, I don't think vanilla Linux has support for your chip.
What you want to do is download/compile Linux 2.4.20-ac2 (you get the -ac2
patch from the people/alan directory on any kernel mirror), build in the
appropriate drivers and use that.
This, of course, requires that you already have a working Linux installation
beforehand, and it's a nightmare trying to make the bootfloppies work with
it.
A better way might be to connect your HD to the standard IDE adapter, install
Debian, compile kernel and move it over to your HPT370A. You won't be able to
use Highpoint-raid on it, but that's really just software raid anyway; using
LVM (if it supports mirroring) or Linux's RAID1 implementation would be
faster and more flexible anyway, so if you weren't going to have Windows
alongside it... but if you did then you wouldn't bother about data security
on this level, would you?
Third way: Put your HDs where they are supposed to go, install Debian on a
spare HD connected to the standard IDE bus and *then* transfer it. This way
you can use the driver's implementation of RAID1. Note that this is slower.
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