Re: Promise PDC20276 RAID Question

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 01:51:16PM -0400, Robert L. Cochran Jr. wrote:
> I'm still confused about how to get the Promise PDC20276 RAID controller 
> to work in 'null' on my Asus P4T533 motherboard. Much of this stems from 
> my own misunderstanding of how to do RAID and also how to utilize the 
> Promise RAID connectors.

It's software raid.

> 
> I thought that to make a RAID array I can plug one drive into the plain 
> old IDE0 connector on the motherboard and the second drive into the 
> Promise IDE RAID connector. Apparently I'm wrong. I need both drives 
> plugged into separate IDE RAID connectors for them to constitute a RAID 
> array. Comments, anyone?

You were right. The "pdcraid" driver allows this set up
> 
> The PDC20276 needs proprietary drivers. Those drivers don't exist for 
> Red Hat versions newer than 7.2. So they won't work for Red Hat 7.3 or 
> NULL. Am I correct about that?

You don't need those; just use pdcraid