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Can you use a promise fasttrak with linux?

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smp

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Do you need drivers for this thing?
I just got a modded promise fasttrack .. I'm trying to install redhat with it.
I have two drives and want to mirror them.
I can get through the setup okay where I make the software raid and stuff .. but then it cacks out on me later down the line.
Do I need kernel support for this thing?
Does it need drivers to work in windows?
Any help, much appreciated.
Thank you.
 
I am not 100% sure of the answer to this question, but I believe it's NO.


The reason being: Promise uses it's own propriatery drivers that the build themselves and because they won't share code, the linux HD guys can't code it themselves.


I also think that it's faster and more effecient (and even more stable *gasp*) to use linux raid.

This is based off of slightly outdated info. There used to be a guy working for RedHat whos project was to fix this issue.
 
Well, this is what happens when I plug both my 40 giggers (a wd 400bb and a maxtor dx740) into the promise card;

The setup start up fine
I am able to partition the drives
I set up two partitions 1 gig each on each drive
make raid - linux swap
I set up the rest 37 gigs or so, the same on both with a few megs left over on one
make raid - ext3 mount point /

then I proceed with setup
it cacks out, reports and error and that's it

when I tried it without the raid card, just using the two ide connectors on the board
I have to plug my cdrom as slave to one of the dirves (is this a bad idea? seems like it)
I go through all of the afformentioned steps
then the setup starts to copy files
then it cacked out on me and reported that my media might be bad.

 
well, AFAIK, make raid is making a linux raid partition (not a Promise RAID partition).


Yeah. You need to use a traditional IDE controller if you are going to use linux (software) raid.


That's the thing about the promise card - it's not REAL RAID - it's software raid. It doesn't really do any hard stuff via the hardware. It relies on drivers to do it.
 
Tbat's the thing though .. it cacks out on me even when I use standard ide channels.
I'm downloading new iso's .. maybe my cd is bum
it worked before though .. a few months ago
it's happened before, so worth a try
 
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