Highpoint RAID

[Shawn Milo]

I have a Soyo Dragon Platinum motherboard in my fileserver with on-board Highpoint IDE RAID. Until yesterday, it was running Slackware, but the old four-gig drive I was using for the OS crapped out. Since I have to replace the hard drive anyway, I figured I'd go for an OS swap while I was at it.

I have two 250-gig drives (not configured as RAID) and two 120-gig drives (RAID mirrored). I don't see any RAID devices in /dev, and I don't see anything useful in dmesg, although it seems to see the Highpoint IDE controller (see dmesg excerpt below). I checked for any modules with hpt in the name, but did not find any.

Does Ubuntu not support this "out-of-the-box"? If not, would someone point me to the proper documentation to get it working?

Is using Ubuntu for a fileserver a bad idea?

If I can get it working in Slackware, I'd expect to be able to figure it out in friendly Ubuntu...

There is a section of my dmesg output below. I intentionally left in unrelated lines in above and below all the IDE stuff, so nobody would think I was leaving out something important.

Thanks in advance for the help,
Shawn

ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2, 2 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (41 C)
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
HPT372: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.0
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
HPT372: chipset revision 5
HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock
HPT372: 100% native mode on irq 10
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xbc00-0xbc07, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xbc08-0xbc0f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA
hde: WDC WD1200BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive
hdf: Maxtor 6Y250P0, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide2 at 0xac00-0xac07,0xb002 on irq 10
hde: max request size: 128KiB
hde: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
hdf: max request size: 1024KiB
hdf: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(133)
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
hdg: WDC WD1200BB-16CAA1, ATA DISK drive
hdh: Maxtor 6Y250P0, ATA DISK drive
ide3 at 0xb400-0xb407,0xb802 on irq 10
hdg: max request size: 128KiB
hdg: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0: p1
hdh: max request size: 1024KiB
hdh: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(133)
/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target1/lun0: p1
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: MAXTOR 4K020H1, ATA DISK drive
hdb: MATSHITA CR-586, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: Host Protected Area detected.
current capacity is 39873331 sectors (20415 MB)
native capacity is 39876480 sectors (20416 MB)
hda: 39873331 sectors (20415 MB) w/2000KiB Cache, CHS=39556/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 >
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: hda1: orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 212286
EXT3-fs: hda1: 1 orphan inode deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 500432k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
hdb: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).