[solved] Dual Boot OCZ RevoDrive 3

brando56894 · 2011-12-27 01:51:33

I just received an OCZ RevoDrive 3 for christmas and was wondering why it wasn't showing up under Arch when it was definitely being detected by the BIOS. I found a thread from last year about the original RevoDrive that said it needed dmraid to work correctly and I assumed that was problem and that the modules weren't built into the CK kernel I was using. So I rebooted to the stock kernel and it still wasn't listed with fdisk -l, so I googled stuff about it and saw on the OCZ forums that Linux was supported!! Luckily some Canadian guy wrote drivers for it and said they were accepted into the mainline kernel as of 3.2-rc1 but dual-booting was supported yet (this was from 12/8/2011).

Before I waste a few hours on trying to get Arch and Windows 7 installed on it (it's 120GB), does anyone know if this works yet? Thanks!

edit: I can't seem to build a working 3.2-rc7 kernel image. I tried building it twice with this script but I got kernel panics each time. So I decided to manually compile it and not use my current .config but all that does is hang after "loading linux.....", I really don't want to return this drive because it's going to be absolutely amazing when it works!

edit: Here's better support

Last edited by brando56894 (2012-01-09 21:40:36)

frankieboy · 2011-12-27 06:52:48

Hi!

I also have an OCZ revodrive, did you put dmraid hook into mkinitcpio.conf before filesystem?

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brando56894 · 2011-12-27 06:56:34

Nope! Didn't try that yet actually, will do now.

brando56894 · 2011-12-27 07:00:22

ran into a problem:

==> Starting build: 3.2.0-rc7-revodrive
  -> Parsing hook: [base]
  -> Parsing hook: [udev]
  -> Parsing hook: [autodetect]
  -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
  -> Parsing hook: [sata]
==> ERROR: Hook 'dmraid' can not be found.

falconindy · 2011-12-27 10:57:15

You would need to install the dmraid package before that hook is available...

brando56894 · 2011-12-27 16:35:30

That's what I figured but I was about to go to sleep and didn't feel like doing it lol Thanks.

brando56894 · 2011-12-27 19:01:41

How should I be compiling my new kernel? Should I be copying my currently running config or should I start fresh? Whenever I try and use my old config it just results in a kernl panic, even with the dmraid package installed. If I start fresh it will boot but some of my devices don't work (because I forgot to select them during the config, it was a test run).

mkinitcpio.conf

HOOKS="base udev autodetect scsi sata dmraid filesystems usbinput"

rc.conf

MODULES=(vboxdrv snd_seq_oss snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss dm_mod)
# Scan for FakeRAID (dmraid) Volumes at startup
USEDMRAID="yes"

Last edited by brando56894 (2011-12-27 19:02:59)

brando56894 · 2012-01-03 22:17:03

All I had to do was install a kernel patch from the OCZ forums and add dmraid to my hooks to get it to work, it will be included in linux-3.2 when it is released.

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#1 2011-12-27 01:51:33

[solved] Dual Boot OCZ RevoDrive 3

#2 2011-12-27 06:52:48

Re: [solved] Dual Boot OCZ RevoDrive 3

#3 2011-12-27 06:56:34

Re: [solved] Dual Boot OCZ RevoDrive 3

#4 2011-12-27 07:00:22

Re: [solved] Dual Boot OCZ RevoDrive 3

#5 2011-12-27 10:57:15

Re: [solved] Dual Boot OCZ RevoDrive 3

#6 2011-12-27 16:35:30

Re: [solved] Dual Boot OCZ RevoDrive 3

#7 2011-12-27 19:01:41

Re: [solved] Dual Boot OCZ RevoDrive 3

#8 2012-01-03 22:17:03

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