CentOS - Sep 2004 - SATA RAID Card

anyone have experiences installing SATA raid card with CentOS/RHEL? I am 
considering Promise FastTrak S150 Tx2 plus, FastTrack 2200 or FastTrack S150 
Sx4

Which one of these ( or any othe brand) can ensure smooth install of CentOS 
without problems, thanks.

:)Harris LIU

Find one compatible with RHEL 3 and it SHOULD be compatible with
centos 3..RHEL 2.1= CentOS 2


Harris wrote:
> 
> anyone have experiences installing SATA raid card with CentOS/RHEL? I am 
> considering Promise FastTrak S150 Tx2 plus, FastTrack 2200 or FastTrack
S150
> Sx4
> 
> Which one of these ( or any othe brand) can ensure smooth install of CentOS
> without problems, thanks.
> 
> :)Harris LIU
> 
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On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:42:17 +0800
"Harris" <harris at linda-harris.net> disait:
> 
> 
> anyone have experiences installing SATA raid card with CentOS/RHEL? I
> am considering Promise FastTrak S150 Tx2 plus, FastTrack 2200 or
> FastTrack S150 Sx4
> 
> Which one of these ( or any othe brand) can ensure smooth install of
> CentOS without problems, thanks.
> 
i've experienced the TX2, and it's not smooth. Lot of crashes (kernel
oops, panic). Not a"real" SATA RAID controller ... experimental
driver,
for me it's not way! ( Dell does not include the card into their RAID
poweredge 400SC because ( i think ) of these problem. They prefer
include the PERC sata 100 RAID 4ch and this last one works with no
problems)

-- 
Martin

FastTrak S150 TX2plus works for me on a Dell Precision WorkStation 650
running Scientific Linux 3.0.2 kernel 2.4.21-15.0.3.ELsmp and PROMISE
driver version 1.00.0.15 from: 
http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=104&category=All&os=4

I have used a additional standard IDE drive to install, compile the
module and copy the filesystems to the SATA drives.

[root]#cat /proc/scsi/ft3xx/2
PROMISE FastTrak TX4000/376/378/S150 TX Series Linux Driver Version 1.00.0.15
Adapter1  - FastTrak S150 TX2plus
Array     - Array[1] : 1+0 Stripe (OK)
          - Array[2] : 1+0 Stripe (OK)
Drive     -
  1 : WDC WD2500JD-75GBB0   IDE1/Master 249999MB IRQ(48) UDMA5 Array[1]
  3 : WDC WD2500JD-75GBB0   IDE2/Master 249999MB IRQ(48) UDMA5 Array[2]

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