bootstrapping

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:30:09PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Friday 31 October 2003 22:00, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > I'm wondering about the promise fasttrack 378 RAID controller. I picked up
> > one (1) SATA drive, and stuck it to the promise connectors. While the
> > controller sees the drive on bootup, once the kernel boots (and reports
> > ata[234] on atapci1) there's no devices there to speak of. Is this a normal
> > phenomenon? A driver issue? Have I been a moron to think that a RAID
> > controller can also act like a plain ata bus?
> 
> This was just me being foolish. The new slimmer cable doesn't obviate the need 
> for a 4-pin molex power connector. Doing newfs on the drive, though, gets me 
> a GPF panic, Stopped at getdirtybuf+0x2d: decl %eax. Guess it's NFS mount 
> then for the sources.

I was able to create a RAID-1 using two SATA drives on an Asus SK8N.  But
that was with sources much newer than the snapshot you are using.  Give
it try with the snapshot I just uploaded.