You may want to have a look at promise's site for the drives now available for 2.4.x kernels. I found I needed to use anon FTP to get them ftp.promise.com. Look in the hardware's folder, usually under either Linux or Beta folder.....Got this working for a RH7.1 box with a Promise ATA/100 Fasttrak100 Raid device.
Any questions, please contact me, I will help if I can.
Unfortunately, we don't use RH kernels, so the modules compiled for it will probably not work with ASL. Furthermore, I'll never let such "black box" things to be used in our distribution [;)]
The sources I saw on the Promise site a couple of weeks ago ware betas and have contained a short suggestion to better get back to 2.2.x if using this controller. Now they are removed, "temporary" according to Promise guys [;)]
correct me if wrong but how about installing on a single disk. Insert the promise driver into kernel and then set up the disk on the promise controller. this ofcourse will not let u stripe disks .. but whats wrong about running mirrored disks.
correct me if wrong but how about installing on a single disk. Insert the promise driver into kernel and then set up the disk on the promise controller. this ofcourse will not let u stripe disks .. but whats wrong about running mirrored disks.
I found that the promise drivers crash quite often with Linux, not just astaro. Is there a new driver out that has been tested for promise using raid 5? or raid 1 even?
I hope promise fixes this and ASL get it. Because IDE raid is VERY cost efficient and promise is a damn good controller. I build lowerend serers with them all the time
i don't see many advantages in using fasttrak 66/100 controllers. the drivers are unstable and the "ide hardware raid" is just a kind of software-raid implemented in the drivers. so why not use linux software-raid ?
