lilo on promise's PDC20267 raid controller

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 02.02.2004 schrieb Dariusz Zmokly um 12:47:
> Hi!
> 
> I installed Fedora and everything works fine except lilo. When I want to 
> install new kernel and type 'lilo' I see
> 
> [root at godoko bezu]# lilo
> Fatal: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x7201
> 
> So I have to move one of hdd disks to another computer without the Promise's 
> controler, install new lilo configuration on that box, then move this hdd 
> back to the first box.
> 
> I read somewhere that it may be caused by old version of lilo (mine is 21.4.4) 
> so I downloaded latest one: lilo-22.5.8.tar.gz. It isn't documented very well 
> so I just typed './QuickInst' and got:
> 
> "QuickInst configures LILO and installs it on your hard disk. It should only 
> be used for first-time installations, _not_ to update or modify an existing
> installation of LILO. It will _not_ generate a valid installation with 
> versions of LILO below 22."
> 
> Hmm, I am not sure what to do. I could try install this lilo version by hand 
> but this could be very bad idea. Could you give me some guidance?
> 
> Thank you ;)
> Dariusz Zmokly

You know
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/ATA-RAID-HOWTO.pdf?

But I can not recommend to use the pseudo raid feature offered by the
controller chip. I did tests with PDC20265 using the Promise driver and
the kernel driver and with both performance of a Raid0 array with 2 fast
80GB WD drives was poor. Less transfer rates than each drive as single.
So better use software raid.

Alexander


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