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Hi Everyone, Has anyone had any experience of using the Promise FastTrak SX4000 or SuperTrak SX6000 IDE RAID Controllers under Centos (if it matters I'm using version 4). I've seen it listed on linuxcompatible.org as working but would prefer to find out any first-hand experince before I buy. I'm looking to build a new mini server based on Mini-ITX and have fou...

...have seen that only SATA is supported on the RHEL hardware compatibility list. The other ATA raid cards seems not to be compatible. They give source code and promise grants compatibility with RedHat 8 and 9 but not RHEL. I would like to know if somebody tried a ATA raid card like Fasttrack TX2000, SX4000, Fasttrack 100 TX2, etc.. If you could share me your experience it would be great. My provider says that he had some bad experiences about that cards and he doesn't allow me to use CentOS on his promise cards he provides (only), so I cannot have RAID on my server... it's a shame.. Thanks...

Hi I have tried to install Centos v3.3 with a PRomise SX4000Lite IDE RAID controller but without success. Can anyone give me a hint why ??? this is the first time that I use something besides what's included in the kernel. Gatox www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=111&category=driver&os=3