The Promise card (ide interface) support in the ide patch seems to
work wonderfully. However, it's for the ide side of promise things
(i.e. ultra33, ultra66, dunno about ultra100 support). The promise
raid cards are essentially bogus. They are the same as their
dual-channel normal-ide counterparts, in fact, recently someone
discovered a hack for the ultra66 (you add one resistor and flash the
bios) to make it a fully functional fasttrak66 raid card (which costs
twice as much). As far as using raid on the card, from what I
understand you need special (windows) drivers, and it presents itself
as a scsi interface to windows or somesuch. I don't think you can
use the 'hardware' raid of this card under linux. However, I am
using an ultra66 (the non-raid version of the fasttrak66) and linux
2.2 software raid 0.90 backport, and it works great.
You might try using the linux-ide patch and seeing if you can just
use the interfaces on the promise card and then software raid them
(I'm pretty sure the "hardware raid" won't present itself as a single
logical drive without their bogon-emitting windows drivers), or, sell
the card and get an ultra100 (the same card, only cheaper :) and do
the same thing.
>I believe you need the latest ide patch from www.linux-ide.org. It
>includes updated drivers for most ide controllers as well as the promise
>controllers. I use the PIIX drivers from that patch so I can't get more
>specific than that.
>
>-Kristian Hoffmann
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>On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, NeoTech wrote:
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>> I have bought a IDE raid controller (promise fastrak100) and i wonder if
>> you got ne tips to get it to work under linux. i run debian 2.2 potato,
>> and it wont worker.. quite nagging.. i try to run striped RAID0.. Ne
>> tips i will be gratefull...
>>
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