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Promise FastTrak SX4000 RAID controller in Linux

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Robor

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Okay, I've got my Fedora Core 4 box up and running. During the install I noticed that Grub didn't see my RAID 5 array on the SX 4000 controller but since I was installing the OS on my SATA Raptor drive I didn't think much about it.

Now that I've got FC4 installed I wanted to partition the array. I looked for FC4 drivers for it and found none. None on the Promise site and none anywhere else. In fact, the latest drivers on the Promise site for any Linux distro are from 11/04 - well behind the newer Linux releases.

I'd like to use these 4 x 120GB drives in RAID 5 for a place to backup data and I'd like to use Linux. Am I screwed? Note that I've got 2 IDE ports, 1 DVD drive, and 4 HD's so software RAID isn't an option.
 
Hmmm... After looking all over I can't find a Linux distro that's going to support my Promise SX-4000 controller. I guess it's back to Windows for my server. :-/

EDIT: Lookie what I found... http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showp....php/product/111/sort/2/cat/303/page/1 😀

I loaded the driver from floppy and Grub recognized my array! 😀 I'm installing Fedora Core 4 again right now. I was able to create a 360GB partition on the array as 'vfat'.

Was that necessary if I'm going to use this as a Linux file server for Ubuntu and WinXP Pro clients? By that I mean if I'm using Samba to share my array could I format it with a Linux filesystem and be able to read/write to it from the WinXP system?
 
No, you did not have to use a fat filesystem. smb operates above the level of physical file systems.

But congrats on your success with your drivers 🙂
 
Originally posted by: kamper
No, you did not have to use a fat filesystem. smb operates above the level of physical file systems.

But congrats on your success with your drivers 🙂
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That's what I suspected but I figured better safe than sorry and went with vfat. Thanks for clarifying that though. 🙂

All i can say is kudos to the Linux community for creating those drivers! 😀 In fact, I need to go to that Yahoo group and thank them.

 
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