On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 01:55:36AM -0700, Ben Barrett wrote: > I've used the a highpoint-chipset controlled raid ide card on redhat > 7.[1-3]; does promise have its own chipset or is it HPT?
Promise is the single competition to the Highpoint chip in terms of crappy software RAID. Promise and Adaptec both make real IDE RAID chipsets that offer most of the features of the SCSI RAID controllers, but they have the disadvantage that they cost real money. Keep in mind the current incarnation of Promise chipsets (and the current incarnation of Highpoints for that matter) demand Linux 2.4.19+ for ATA133 support. This will infect the installation of certain Linux distributions *cough*Debian. My Promise chip is missing the software RAID BIOS (that is, it's just a pair of IDE connectors, rather than a pair of IDE connectors pretending to be something more..) The setup was weird since my first drive is /dev/hde: title Penguin Power! root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/hde5 rw boot The partition layout of the drive is so: hde1 Boot Primary Linux ext3 [Boot] 98.71 hde5 Logical Linux ext3 [Root] 77901.63 hde6 Logical Linux swap 2048.10 /boot is so large because it served some unorthodox purposes at one point (a long story) and / is a single partition containing /var and /usr as well. Obviously I've set up a workstation and not a server. If you wanna install Debian on an ATA133 chipset, you probably can bootstrap the process from a Knoppix CD. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This end upside-down <Madax> ahh <Madax> a gathering of geeks.... <Madax> I can smell it now _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
