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Is this hardware raid or software raid?
Lars Bjaerris wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I have a coworker with a problem, but must admit that I'm not
>experienced enough, with this kind of problem to give advice.
>He's not on the list, so I thought I'd give it a go here and learn.
>
>So here goes:
>
>The box is running Redhat 9.0
>Primarily running anaconda
>Raid5 with a HighPoint 374 IDE RAID controller.
>During boot fsck reports filesystem corruption on the root partition.
>It has 2 partitions / and /boot
>Disk drivers were added during anaconda install.
>
>Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Lars Sorensen
>
>
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>The problem is that I have a HighPoint 374 IDE RAID controller
>in the machine and it isn't possible to access the raid volume
>unless I (a) turn off the kernels ability to auto-probe the
>controller and just assign each of the six disks as their own
>IDE devices (/dev/hd<x> you know), and (b) load the appropriate
>kernel module from somewhere.
>
>(a) isn't very difficult to accomplish. It should suffice to
>write something like "ide0=noprobe ..." or maybe "hdd=noprobe ..."
>at the "boot: " prompt.
>
>(b) is a lot more difficult to make happen during booting.
>
>So, I tried loading the "hpt374.o" kernel module manually
>using "insmod". No luck. There are at least three unresolved
>symbols that have to do with the scsi driver, I think.
>Note: this is the same drivers I installed the stupid machine
>with originally! (Only I added the drivers in the installation
>phase of "anaconda" where I could use the "Add driver disk"
>feature).
>
>You wouldn't happen to know if it is possible to do the
>"Add driver disk" *after* installation, do you?
>(I.e. use some kind of program that would mimic what "anaconda"
>does at installation, but doing it in "run time" so to speak.)
>
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