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**opie** · Oct 23, 2007, 11:16 AM

Re: How set up my controller card

This isn't something I know much about setting up under linux but since no one else is responding I will try to help where I can.

Firstly, so we are clear, you have already installed linux on a single 80GB drive connected to another controller and you want to create a raid setup with two additional drives connected to your innovision card?

This system is clean so there is no present raid setup or data to protect?

It appears as if that innovision card is a true hardware raid card, rather than some software raid setup. Do you know whether I am wrong about this?

If it is hardware raid are you sure it isn't presently recognized? They can show up as /dev/rd or /dev/sd* (such as /dev/sda)

For example if you

ls /dev/rd

and

ls /dev/sd*

Do you get any output?

If it is really software raid then I think the best approach would involve partitioning the two drives separately and using mdadm to configure them into raid.

I can give links to some of this after you give feedback on the above.

**Mike Aus** · Oct 23, 2007, 01:57 PM

Re: How set up my controller card

Thanks for your response.

My main board which seems usual these day has only one IDE connection. On that I have a 80Gb drive and a DVD reader. Then innovision controller with two 300gb drives. Yes it is clean and most hardware new, disks are not, also clean system.

I tried your suggestions:-
mikehmc@hmcfred:~$ ls /dev/sda
/dev/sda
mikehmc@hmcfred:~$ sudo ls /dev/sda
[sudo] password for mikehmc:
/dev/sda
mikehmc@hmcfred:~$ ls /dev/rd
ls: /dev/rd: No such file or directory
mikehmc@hmcfred:~$ sudo ls /dev/rd
ls: /dev/rd: No such file or directory
mikehmc@hmcfred:~$ sudo -i
root@hmcfred:~# ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda5

I think the sda on the system disk.
The Innovision card has instructions to install a module for Red Hat or Mandrake, this is probably the simplist path. I also have stuff that says I should rebuild the kernel.

**opie** · Oct 23, 2007, 06:37 PM

Re: How set up my controller card

In a terminal window (paste the output in this thread):

Code:

lspci

and

Code:

lshw

**Mike Aus** · Oct 24, 2007, 04:51 AM

Re: How set up my controller card

lspci
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 SE] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
04:00.0 RAID bus controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT/ITE8212 Dual channel ATA RAID controller (rev 13)
04:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
04:02.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
------------------------------------
lshw
------------------------------------
hmcfred
description: Desktop Computer
product: P31-DS3L
vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4
configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop uuid=00000000-0000-0000-0000-001D7D913CFE
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: P31-DS3L
vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
version: x.x
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
physical id: 0
version: F1 (07/19/2007)
size: 128KB
capacity: 448KB
capabilities: pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2140 @ 1.60GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.15.13
serial: 0000-06FD-0000-0000-0000-0000
slot: Socket 775
size: 1600MHz
capacity: 4GHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 200MHz
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx x86-64 constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm cpufreq
configuration: id=0
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: a
slot: Internal Cache
size: 64KB
capacity: 64KB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: b
slot: External Cache
size: 1MB
capacity: 2MB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
*-logicalcpu:0
description: Logical CPU
physical id: 0.1
width: 64 bits
capabilities: logical
*-logicalcpu:1
description: Logical CPU
physical id: 0.2
width: 64 bits
capabilities: logical
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 1b
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 1GB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
physical id: 0
slot: A0
size: 512MB
width: 64 bits
clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
*-bank:1
description: DIMM [empty]
physical id: 1
slot: A1
*-bank:2
description: DIMM 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
physical id: 2
slot: A2
size: 512MB
width: 64 bits
clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
*-bank:3
description: DIMM [empty]
physical id: 3
slot: A3
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: G72 [GeForce 7300 SE]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 module=snd_hda_intel
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
*-pci:2
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.3
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:1d:7d:91:3c:fe
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.2LK duplex=full ip=192.168.0.34 latency=0 link=yes module=r8169 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
*-usb:0
description: USB Controller
product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd
*-usb:2
description: USB Controller
product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd
*-usb:3
description: USB Controller
product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.3
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd
*-usb:4
description: USB Controller
product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm ehci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0 module=ehci_hcd
*-pci:3
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801 PCI Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
version: e1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master cap_list
*-storage
description: RAID bus controller
product: IT/ITE8212 Dual channel ATA RAID controller
vendor: Integrated Technology Express, Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
version: 13
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: storage pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pata_it821x latency=64 maxlatency=8 mingnt=8 module=pata_it821x
*-multimedia:0 UNCLAIMED
description: Multimedia video controller
product: CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder
vendor: Conexant
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:04:02.0
version: 05
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vpd pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=32 maxlatency=55 mingnt=20
*-multimedia:1
description: Multimedia controller
product: CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port]
vendor: Conexant
physical id: 2.2
bus info: pci@0000:04:02.2
version: 05
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=cx88-mpeg driver manager latency=32 maxlatency=88 mingnt=6 module=cx8802
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1
logical name: scsi2
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master emulated
configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0 module=ata_piix
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
product: ST380011A
vendor: ATA
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 3.04
serial: 3JV02Q6R
size: 74GB
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5
*-volume:0
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
capacity: 71GB
capabilities: primary bootable
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
size: 2957MB
capacity: 2957MB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sda5
capacity: 2957MB
capabilities: nofs
*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: RW/DVD GCC-4320B
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 0.1.0
bus info: scsi@2:0.1.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 1.00
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=open
*-serial UNCLAIMED
description: SMBus
product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: latency=0
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My that is a fair bit of information. The raid controller does get a mention. There are two things I have not mentioned. One is the main board has a built in sata raid controller (nothing connected) and I have not set the interrupts etc of the controller board they were just left as the standard default.

**opie** · Oct 24, 2007, 12:50 PM

Re: How set up my controller card

Hmm.

Well based on the motherboard specs and the innovision card specs it appears as if the ITE8212 is indeed your innovision card.

The card is recognized and the pata_it821x module appears to be loading. You should be able to confirm this with

lsmod | grep 821

No disks are showing up however. To confirm: you are sure that you went into the raid card's bios setup and configured correctly and didn't do something like go into the motherboard raid and configure that by mistake?

I'll do some more research on this because I don't know why the system is not recognizing the drives. Everything that I am reading claims that newer distros should be able to handle this raid chip without additional work from the user, but there do seem to be people having problems. I haven't found a solid lead yet. I'll do what I can.

**Mike Aus** · Oct 24, 2007, 02:23 PM

Re: How set up my controller card

mikehmc@hmcfred:~$ lsmod | grep 821
pata_it821x 12292 0
libata 125168 3 ata_piix,pata_it821x,ata_generic

I am sure I configured the right device since the hardware does see the disks and they are connected to the controller card. If my interrupts were not right then I assume I not have got this far. If this were windows or any OS in that line I would now need to partition the Raid drive and format. I can not see any way I can do that in Kubuntu. Is that my problem?
I am now going to reboot and see what happens even though I am sure I have done that.

Rebooted and had a look at settings.
Controller interrupt is B (Hex) and master address D010 Slave D210. Is this right I thought IDE controllers were E or F? Is it different with Linux?

Another thought is shouldn't a ide disk be on hda or hdb? I will look when I get home tonight

**mchuskie** · Oct 24, 2007, 06:14 PM

Re: How set up my controller card

You might want to try booting from a live CD (the one you installed Kubuntu from will do, I think) and play around with QTParted (found under "System" in the menu". This is a partition editor that (should) have some options for RAID... as I'm still stuck back in the days of PATA, I can't help you any further than that!

**Mike Aus** · Oct 25, 2007, 02:23 AM

Re: How set up my controller card

Okay tried QTParted and it found the drive I can see but nothing else.
ls /dev/hd* does not produce anything

Tried installing the module provided for DEB debian I guess, got.
root@hmcfred:/home/mikehmc# modprobe sd_mod
root@hmcfred:/home/mikehmc# insmod iteraid.o
insmod: error inserting 'iteraid.o': -1 Invalid module format

I have used fdisk to see what partitions are available and get:-

root@hmcfred:/home/mikehmc# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x21782177

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9352 75119908+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9353 9729 3028252+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 9353 9729 3028221 82 Linux swap / Solaris

So I wonder where sda3 and sda4 are?

I have to go away for the next 3 days so I will get back to this Monday. Feel the answer is just that I am ignorant of how it should be done.

**Mike Aus** · Oct 28, 2007, 01:07 AM

Re: How set up my controller card

Okay where do I go from here? Should I transfer to some other forum or am chasing a hopeless cause? Where would I find a solution?

**opie** · Oct 28, 2007, 11:01 AM

Re: How set up my controller card

I thought I had more time, but I have tried looking into this.

At a minimum the OS should be detecting that there is something attached to the card, but it isn't.
There are pretty good indications that people are having problems with pata_it821x. It also looks like the older it821x functions for them. In other words they didn't have problems in dapper, only from feisty on.

On your options:

The modules on your disk are likely not going to be useful for a new debian distro on the latest kernel.
On the issue of compiling your own from your disk files, again I suspect the code is old, perhaps even for 2.4 kernel.

I think your best 2 options(with the best first), are:

1. booting a livecd of dapper and seeing if sudo lshw and qt/gparted at least detect that there are drives connected.

2. trying

Code:

sudo modprobe -r pata_it821x

Code:

sudo modprobe pata_it821x noraid=1

If the drives are recognized with noraid set you could load the drivers nonraid and use linux software raid with the now recognized drives.

If you seek help elsewhere, like the ubuntu forums, could you give us links to those threads? I'm interested in keeping track of this and knowing what, if any, solution you find.

**Mike Aus** · Oct 29, 2007, 04:17 AM

Re: How set up my controller card

Unfortunately I have run out of time and will have to try another way. I have three IDE disks and a DVD reader. Modern boards have only one IDE so that covers my 80gb system disk and DVD. So how do I use my two 300gb IDE disks? I think have the skills (having been a programmer since 1975) to get them working but being inexperienced with Linux this will not be quick.

So my option now is to pull the drives out and transfer them to a Windows box. As it is fairly full I will still have to use the controller card. Transfer data and then use two SATA drives the IDE ones will replace. BTW Raid is not important I just want to get some large capacity drives in to this new Linux box which will be running MythTV soon I hope.

Thanks for your help sorry we were not successful.

**opie** · Oct 29, 2007, 09:55 AM

Re: How set up my controller card

"Transfer data..."

I was under the impression you weren't trying to salvage any data off the drives? If you are then I would certainly return the drives to whatever install they were under and back them up completely.

If raid isn't important you should be able to put the card into a non-raid mode. You could then try the modprobe instructions I gave above, to remove and then reload the module with the noraid option. Then run lshw and see if the drives are showing up. If they are you should be able to use them simply as additional individual drives.

**Mike Aus** · Oct 29, 2007, 01:25 PM

Re: How set up my controller card

I can't go back now. To set the record straight though the two IDE disks were empty. I need to get SATA drives so I put the two IDE disks into the W2K box and copied data from the SATA drives in that box to the empty IDE ones.

Then I have two SATA disks for the Linux box and no controller! I have already moved the disks to W2k box and transfered the data. W2K recognised the controller immediately I installed the driver, partioned and formatted. No problems!

So now I have two SATA only 250Gb each but oh well! Now do I just connect them and they work? Of course I have to enable the on board SATA but where to from there? I have get on with this quickly.

**opie** · Oct 29, 2007, 02:47 PM

Re: How set up my controller card

I think drivers are probably loaded by default even though you didn't have sata drives connected.

When you boot up run

lshw -C disk

and you will hopefully see all 4 of your drives.
At that point you can either mount them manually or people here will help with setting them up to be mounted on boot. This will require some fstab changes but shouldn't be a big issue if the drives are recognized.

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