Is it possible to have 7.2 use my fasttrak as if it were a promise ultra100 card (no arrays setup)? If thats possible, I will just setup software raid and get a separate hard drive for windows. If not, I'll order myself an ultra100 card and ditch the fasttrak entirely.
7.2 has the correct modules, BUT the install program barfs when probing. My solution was to unplug the card, and throw my distro onto a small ide disk I had hanging around (anything >= 2 gb). I then shut the machine down, plugged the fastrak card in, set up a raid 0 array with the promise bios. After booting, I manually insmoded the 2 modules required for ATA promise raid controllers. From there I created my partitions and file systems, modified my /etc/fstab and copied over the relavant directories, then rebooted. Works like a charm. I DO have to have a minimal /boot and / on an seperate IDE drive that is not part of the RAID. since / and /boot don't change often it doesn't affect performance much at all.
I hope this helps.
Aaron Gee
