Linux and Promise Fasttrak100TX2 issue...

[xpander]

Anybody knows if there is a Linux distro that solved the problem with the recognition of this RAID card (Promise Fasttrak100)?
I've checked the RH 7.2 and I still cannot see it 😕

 

[cleverhandle]

The card has been supported in the kernel since 2.4 (?). In that sense, every distro "supports" it. But most distros don't have an install program that will allow you to install directly to the array - instead you install to another disk and then copy the system to the array and reconfigure LILO. I'm sure RedHat 7.2 supports the card at installation, I think 7.0 was the first. Don't know about the others. But if you have the disk to spare, doing it the hard way is a good exercise.

 

[pens]

This card was supported in 2.2.x that i know of. I've used this card in Slackware, Debian and SuSE (SuSE detected it on boot). I'm NOT using this as a RAID card, just as an ATA100 card, but i'm assuming the procedure might be similar. On the LILO prompt, i type in "Linux ide2=0xd800,0xdc02" I get those numbers from Windows device manager. It's the first two IO ranges and you add 2 to the second number. So in windows device manager i see this..

I/O Range D800-D807
I/O Range DC00-DC03
....


Hope this helped.

 

[cleverhandle]

It's a bit different when you use the RAID functions. Linux accesses Promise and Highpoint RAID arrays through the "ataraid" device. For example, /dev/ataraid/d0p2 is the second partition of your first array. Unless the distro's install program includes this type of device in its /dev directory, and has kernel support, it won't be able to see the device properly. Exact instructions for using these controllers are kind of scattered throughout the web unfortunately, but searches around "linux ataraid" will get you in the right direction.

 

[xpander]

Thank you guys...
I hope this time I'll do it without problems...🙂