> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 19 17:24:26 2000
>
> Jeffrey Paul wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 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
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, NeoTech wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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...
>
> Right.. The Ultra series cards (addon UltraDMA cards) are supported
> directly by the kernel (at least in 2.4test). However, the FastTrack
> controllers are IDE RAID.. and dont work with the kernel driver as of
> yet. Promise has the driver source on their ftp site.
If you want IDE raid with a "hardware RAID" controller, the only
one I've had experience with (and it works great) is the 3Ware
escalade controllers. They're cheap and are supported by Linux.
I'm using a bunch of them with Redhat 6.1 and 6.2 in both RAID 0
and RAID 1 configurations. Check out www.3ware.com. I bought
the cards themselves from thelinuxstore.com.
Hope that helped.
As far as I know, the promise cards' RAID functions do not yet
work with Linux.
Cheers,
Chris
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