Knoppix 3.7 and Highpoint 1542 Raid Controller

[Kowalsky]

Hi

I am having problems to convince Knoppix 3.7 to detect an existing SATA Raid 1 System.

The mainboard is a GA-8IPXDR E7500. 2 IDE drives: hda is ok, hdb belongs to /dev/ataraid/d0
2 SCSI DVD Drives.

The 2 SATA Drives are connected to the controller and are shown as /dev/hde and /dev/hdi, but
afair its kinda forbidden to directly access /dev/hde for writing.

How can I access this RAID 1 (normally /dev/sda)?

Which module/driver does Knoppix use for the Highpoint raidcontroller?
What I have seen the module hpt374 isnt in /lib/modules/....
(Does it make sense to compile the highpoint opensource drivers somehow
into knoppix - if possible?)

Any hint or tip would be really great

greetings
b

[Kowalsky]

Tnx for all the replies...

Anyways, I put the Controller & Harddisks in a slack 10 box, and compiled there the opensource driver from highpoint (after editing 2 lines in a .h-file) with a
2.6.10 Kernel as a Module.

bootparams are: acpi=off hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe hdg=noprobe hdh=noprobe hdi=noprobe

(as stated somewhere in the highpoint docs)

then:
modprobe scsi_mod (not necessary if compiled into kernel)
modprobe sd_mod (dito)
modprobe hpt374 (the compiled module from above)

et voila, /dev/sda is created

if someone could explain how to compile a module in knoppix26 (i couldnt find the /usr/src/linux-2.6.9 tree) one can compile the sources, put the module on a floppy and boot knoppix in expert mode.

my 2 cents

regards
b