AL with promise raid-0 (ataraid)

Hey guys!
I'm pretty new to AL and wont to clean my harddiscs from SuSE... you know where I'm comming from
I got three harddiscs in my router/fileserver:
1 normal (non-raid) hd with the a swop partition a the root partition
2 raided (raid-0) hds for the /usr/ftp
I've configured and installed my own version of the 2.4.19 (should work for me and my raid system :twisted:) (btw: cool smilies!!!)
:?: So now here's my question:
I can't find the /dev/atairaid/dXpY , but I need them to mount my raid-0 hd
Anybody got a suggestion for me???
Greetings
Moritz

Hey Sitor!
No, I've not tried that out.
But I tried to install the raid controller on my suse and it works. I've compiled the kernel with support for the controller and mounted the filesystem via "mount /dev/ataraid/d0p1 /home"
Why do you use the initrd? I've never made my own initrd (well, I even don't know how to creat them  )
Maybe that's the solution of my problem....
Moritz

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