similar to: Promise FastTrak series

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 found a great 1U case

I'm trying to install CentOS 4 on an A8V on the PATA/Raid drives on the Promise controller. The Promise controller is recognized (sata_promise), but the PATA drives are not recognized. Base on this thread https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=147303 it seems that there is a patch which was merged in 2.6.11 to get pata working. Any ideas how to proceed? Thanks in advance

Trying to install FastTrak TX2000 in box with CentOS 3.3 install. Just downloaded Redhat 8/9 driver from Promise but install says correct driver not found. Any suggestions? Is there a command to scroll --help files by the page... like DOS has /p -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hello CentOS, Does anyone know if there's a driver out there that'll enable CentOS 4.x to use the Intel Matrix SATA RAID settings on the 915 chipsets? -- Best regards, Mickael mailto:mike at kamloopsbc.com www.MickaelMaddison.com

Trying to install FastTrak TX2000 in box with CentOS 3.3 (kernal 2.4.21-20.EL.c0) install. Just downloaded Redhat 8/9 driver from Promise. But "sh install" says correct driver not found on diskette. Any suggestions? Thaks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

What kind of implementation software or hardware is recommended for ide Raid 1 with ext3? Some controllers from Promise like their new FastTrak TX2000 look nice. But won't I be tied into the kernel version that is only supported under their drivers? Is ide software Raid stable and fast with ext3 for a production system? Thanks in advance. Aaron Lopez

Hi, On my x86_64 system I have a SiL311x controller that can do RAID. If I configure my 2 identical disks in a RAID1 setup, I would expect to see only 1 block device on Linux. Still I see 2 block devices. Is this intentional, and if so, isn't that dangerous ? (i.e. writing to both disks at the same time) Anyone with an insight, please explain :) -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com,

Does anyone have this card working in hardware RAID mode? I can see the individual ATA drivers when booting. The promise site has drivers for Redhat 7.3,8 and 9, but nothing for higher. I see the source code, and can build the module, but I need it loaded at boot time. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Sean

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

What is really puzzling me is that the ataraid device (/dev/ataraid/d0p1 mounted as /bigdisk) 2x 123GB IBM Deskstar's is formated as ext2...top and ps etc... show a fight between kjournald and kupdated and all searches for kjournald or kupdated fights suggest ext3 issues... :-) It's a RedHat 7.2, 2.4.7-10 custom kernal (I added in the Promise FastTrak support and HIGH mem support to

Hello. I would like to know if promise RAID cards are compatible with CentOS / RHEL ? I 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,

Hi, One of my CentOS 4 server is a repository for backups for other machines. In this server, there is a 3ware RAID card and 2 HDD for the OS + data of this server. I also have 2 drawers (each containing one 200GB hdd), connected to a promise TX2000 card. One disk will remain in the server and one will be taken outside. What would be the best strategy for syncing the hdd when I swap

I have a North American BRI configured as National ISDN (NI-1) on an SBC (Nortel?) switch. SBC calls this "FastTrak ISDN", and it's surprisingly inexpensive -- less than two POTS lines. I've been trying to find an inexpensive PCI interface solution to connect this to Asterisk as voice lines. I prefer ISDN BRI over POTS lines because of the improved signalling, fast dialing,

Hi all! According to www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/hardware-i386.html#AEN63 FreeBSD doesnt seem to support the PDC20378 chipset. Anyway, output of dmesg, atapci0: <Promise PDC20378 SATA150 controller> port 0xdc00-0xdc7f,0xdfa0-0xdfaf,0xdf00-0xdf3f mem 0xfeac0000-0xfeadffff,0xfeafe000-0xfeafefff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci2 more dmesg output: ar0: ERROR - array broken

Dear Soeren, a couple of months ago, namely > revision 1.8 > date: 2003/05/01 06:20:50; author: sos; state: Exp; lines: +17 -2 > I'm pleased to announce that Promise is now supporting the FreeBSD > project by providing documentation (under NDA) and hardware for > testing. This commit is the first result of the cooperation, and > adds support for several of their new

Laurent Moix wrote: > Hi, > > I try to install shorewall 2.2 on suse 9.2. > > # rpm -ivh --nodeps /root/shorewall-2.2.1-1.noarch.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > 1:shorewall ########################################### [100%] > shorewall: unknown service > shorewall: not a runlevel service > >

Hi Last week I had a lengthy thread in which someone indicated the my SIL card is a FRAID (don't know if F stands for the F word or Fake, though it doesn't really matter). I want to replace the controller with a controller that Linux will see the RAID1 group as a single HD and not multiple HDs as it happens with the SIL controller. Recommendations anyone? -- TIA Paolo --------------

I have a dell precision 380: http://catalog.us.dell.com/CS1/CS1Page2.aspx?br=6&c=us&cs=555&fm=11210&l=en&s=biz with an Intel Matrix Storage Manager ICH7R RAID Controller http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/cs-020663.htm I need to get CentOS 3 installed on this thing but can't due to the fact that the controller is not supported in 2.4 kernels. There is a patch

I have RH 8 running on a Abit BE7-RAID motherboard. My task is installing Centos 4.1 with limited knowledge on installing with hardware RAID. The arrays are still in place for the two pairs of drives. HighPoint only shows drivers up through RH 9. Is there anyone who can take me through the steps? Remove the existing arrays? Will the drivers work with Centos 4.1? Since I used Windows to

Greetings - I'm looking to put some cheap storage into my server, which is running centos 3. I'm looking at the Maxtor SATA/150 PCI Card and a big maxtor sata drive. I would like to make sure that CentOS has driver for this controller. I looked in Red Hat's hardware database and did some google'ing but I couldn't find any info to confirm that this card is compatible.