I got 7.2 with a standard 2.4.18 kernel working. I also got 7.3 with ataraid support working. I didn't even get a change to test, as dropping a drive in either of the above installes crashed the server. I'm using a Tyan 2505 board with onboard Promise Fasttrack 100 chipset onboard ( PDC20267 ). Using the drivers from Promise, you are limited to using the 2.4.7-10 kernel..default to 7.2. I contacted Promise, and they pretty much told me that they work on Redhat versions, and not on kernel versions, so getting a "precompiled" driver from them for a new kernel ain't going to happen very soon. I have a slightly newer version of the ft.o drivers that Promise tech support sent me, let me know if you want them. Again these drivers are only for a a default RH 7.2 install..ie. 2.4.7-10 kernel. Anton -----Original Message----- From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paul Barrette Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 11:49 AM To: ataraid Subject: raid 0 pdc20276 and rh 7.2, install ok, but kernel compile2.4.19-pre8 bad performance Hi, I installed rh 7.2 with the the ft scsi mod from promise ok, but I thought I would recompile my kernel and try out the new ataraid support for my promise chipset, which is allegedly supported. Hardware: asus A7V333, 256 DDRRAM, 2xMaxstore ata133 40G promise PDC 20276/ MBFastTrack133 Lite nvidia geforce 2mx400 filesystems are all ext3 kernel 2.4.18 patched with patch-2.4.19-pre8 After compiling my kernel with the ataraid params, and rebooting, the mounting of filesystems takes about 5 minutes to complete. Furthermore, performance is not very good. E.g. dd if=/dev/zero of=big count=3000k takes more than 3 min. With the promise supplied ft scsi mod, this same dd test takes about 1 min 17 secs. Rebooting with my kernel also causes some harddrive seek/read errors. Has anyone had good results compiling their kernel? thanks. Paul -- Paul Barrette Specialties: Network Programming, Linux/Unix, Latin, Greek 0000000: 5369 6e67 2067 6f64 6465 7373 2c20 7468 Sing goddess, th 0000010: 6520 616e 6765 7220 6f66 2050 656c 6575 e anger of Peleu 0000020: 7327 2073 6f6e 2041 6368 696c 6c65 730a s' son Achilles. 0000030: 616e 6420 7468 6520 6465 7661 7374 6174 and the devastat 0000040: 696f 6e2c 2077 6869 6368 2070 7574 2070 ion, which put p 0000050: 6169 6e73 2074 686f 7573 616e 6466 6f6c ains thousandfol 0000060: 6420 7570 6f6e 2074 6865 0a41 6368 6169 d upon the.Achai 0000070: 616e 732e 2e2e 0a ans.... _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
