I have just installed a Promise FastTrak 100 RAID controller using RAID-1 (mirroring) with two 36GB Western Digital drives. I am using the "ataraid" and "pdcraid" modules with the 2.4.13-ac8 Kernel in a RedHat 7.2 installation with the FastTrak 100 card. Things are working fine. Is there a way to monitor the health of the array in Linux ?? How do I know both drives are working ?? How do I know when a drive in my array goes down without rebooting ?? The FastTrak FastMenu program on the FastTrak PCI card provides much of this information, but it is necessary to reboot the machine to run the FastMenu program. Is there a way to learn the status of the array while running Linux ?? Has anyone written a Linux program that can read the FastTrak bios that is available for download ?? Thanks, Jim West jimwest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
