Re: Hacked Ultra100

[Helge Lenz <h.lenz@xxxxxx>]

Eric Hattemer wrote:

> I have a hacked Ultra100 made to function like a Fastrack100.  I 
> followed the steps on www.braziliantech.com 
> <http://www.braziliantech.com> .  Basically, what Daniel, the 
> webmaster for that site, did was to take a fasttrack bios, then change 
> every occurrence of Device ID DEV_4D30 (FastTrak), and replace it with 
> DEV_0D30 (Ultra100).  Then he took every occurrence of SubSystem ID 
> SUBSYS_4D39105A and changed it to SUBSYS_4D33105A.  
> http://www.braziliantech.com/en-us/guides/02172001.shtml  .  All I had 
> to do was flash the bios, then download his special windows drivers in 
> order to get it to work.  What would I have to do to the linux drivers 
> to get linux installed on this hacked array?  To modify the windows 
> drivers, he changed a "104h - RAID Controller" to a " 180h - PCI Mass 
> Storage Controller".  
> http://www.braziliantech.com/en-us/guides/06142001.shtml  .  He 
> created linux drivers, based off the Promise ones, which do not 
> validate the device class.  However, these drivers do not seem to 
> work.  I cannot install RH7 or 7.1 using this driver disk.  
> http://www.braziliantech.com/Promise/ftrhup_120b9_A7VRAID.zip  .  What 
> would I need to do to get these drivers to work, or create new drivers 
> for the hacked chip.  The chip is a Promise Ultra100 on an Asus A7V 
> motherboard.  Thanks.
>
>  
>
> -Eric Hattemer
Why so complicated? I bought a Promise Ultra66, soldered a single 
resistor to it and flashed an original Promise BIOS for an Fasttrak66 to 
and it works like a charm! I have not tried it with an Ultra100 but I 
found a website with a description how to do this: 
http://www.tweakhardware.com/raid/ . If you modify the Controller like 
this, you have a "real" Fasttrak and you have no Problems with any 
self-patched drivers and bioses. There are even some guides how to 
modify onboard controllers...

Greetings
Helge Lenz