On Thursday, 8. November 2001 22:50, Michael Steinhart wrote:
> HI all
>
> This is my first post to this list.
> I am building several new servers over the next day or two and I need to
> have them on-line on Monday morning. I will be using the Promise Fast Track
> 100 TX4 controller with a Gigabyte GA- 7ZXR (Rev 3.X). The onboard Gigabyte
You're lucky, you haven't specified the week ;-)
My experiments with multiple PDC20268 based contollers (2 * TX2/1 * TX4) in a
dual Tyan K7/Thunder were unsuccessful since now: only the 1st controller is
running correctly (UDMA 100). In the TX4 case, system freezes with
hdi: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ 7 during boot.
With 2 TX2, I got very poor performance on the second ctrl. because driven in
PIO mode :-(
tyrex:~ # for i in hde hdg hdi hdk; do hdparm -tT /dev/$i; done
/dev/hde:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.47 seconds =272.34 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.68 seconds = 38.10 MB/sec
/dev/hdg:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.48 seconds =266.67 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.66 seconds = 38.55 MB/sec
/dev/hdi:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.48 seconds =266.67 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 23.07 seconds = 2.77 MB/sec
/dev/hdk:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.49 seconds =261.22 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 24.30 seconds = 2.63 MB/sec
I've tested 2.4.12, 2.4.12-ac6, and 2.4.12-ac6 + last patch from Andre
Hedrick so far. I'm at the point to consider a SCSI solution...
Good luck, hp
HW: Tyan K7 Thunder, 2 * XP1700, 2GB, 2 * Promise Ultra100 TX2
4 * 60GB IBM IDE
> controller will be disabled on the GA-7ZXR. I am want to use Redhat 7.2 on
> these servers. So my question is: is there a driver disk or boot disk image
> available for the TX4 and RH 7.2? I can use the binary drivers that
> Promise has for RH 7.1 but I would rather use the open source drivers and
> RH 7.2 if possible. Also is there step by step instruction available if
> there is not a boot image disk or a driver disk.
>
> Thank you in advance
> Michael Steinhart
> PMH Systems
> mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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