David Noel wrote:
Has anyone had any luck with the FastTrak Driver for the Promise 20276 onboard Raid (0,1) controller with redhat 8.0.
It works fine with Redhat 7.3
I have the driver disk from Promise for 7.3 but 8.0 does not like it. My guess is because the kernel is a different version in 8.0. Is there a way to hack the modules.cgz file to make it 8.0 compatable? On that note is the source code for FastTrak.o available anywhere? Looks like Promise may only be releasing binary drivers? I'm not sure. If the code is available I may be able to install the 8.0 kernel on 7.3, compile the driver, and make a new modules.cgz the contains the new driver.
Any thoughts or ideas?
The promise driver in binary only. Their driver will always be closed source. It will not work on 8.0. In any case their driver does raid in the driver. So why not use linux's software raid.
There is an open source driver which should allow you use the promise chipset as a std ide controller. RH 8.0 appears to be correctly configured to do this. (It worked in the 3rd 8.0 beta null.) You can do 2 things:
-Use linux software raid via installer
or
1)Install on one drive via the installer (the RH doesn't support ataraid devices)
reboot
2)Switch to using the /dev/ataraid devices instead of the /dev/hd.
reboot
3)Create a mirror via the bios util
reboot
