On Saturday 30 June 2001 12:18, Claudio wrote:
> Hi all people!
> I'm quite happy of my mdk-8.0, so it was a little time I didn't
> test cooker on my machine. But 2 days ago I installed the latest
> kernel in cooker and... what a surprise: I saw that line during the
> boot:
>
> VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x9000-0x9007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x9008-0x900f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 60
> PDC20265: chipset revision 2
> ide: Found promise 20265 in RAID mode.
>
> It seems that the kernel now recognize the Ata-100-RAID-controller
> installed onboard of my dual-cpu MSI-6321. I actually have to put
> all the HD on standard IDE controller, and I don't like it... So I
> decided to test latest cooker, if it could see that ata/raid
> controller. Result is NO good, it's still like kernel 2.4.3, but
> now the question is: may it depend on the fact that the files in
> /images/*.img are too old? Why the kernel does not see correctly
> that controller during installation but it can see perfectly after
> installation?...
> More precisely: when will I be able installing cooker on Promise
> ata-100/raid controller? Any plan about it?
> There are many people with such problem here, in some mailing list
> in Italy, so I think it's a general problem. ;o)
> C.
Well, it si not a hardware RAID controller, so any RAID use of it
depends on Promise to disclose the secret, proprietary software used.
In other words it is a WinRAID.
Andre Hedrick did get some information about promise FastTraks and
made a drriver but it is basically limited to seeing one disk on one
channel at current implementation.
There are no plans. It cannot be supported without more information
from Promise.
But if it is a general problem, you might want to organize a
"write-to-Promise day" with the others who are similarly concerned,
say once a month. And f they starty getting lots of letters
encouraging them to cooperate, then perhaps they will.
Civileme
