On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 19:00, Max Lytvyn wrote: > I have a machine with TX2000 (promise soft raid), two disks in raid 1 > mirror boot drive and Linux 7.3 installed (not custom - right from the > disk) > > Everything works fine with FastTrack scsi emulation module, but I cannot > upgrade kernel or anything like that. > > I tried to compile kernel 2.4.19 as described here: > http://www.murty.net/ataraid/nativeraid.html > > 2.4.19 does not include support for the TX2000 card, so it wont help if you compile this kernel. However, with a trick in /usr/src/linux/drivers/ide/pdc202xx.c you can put in TX2000 support yourself. You just have to replace all occurences of "20269" with "20271". The latter is the ID of the TX2000 card. Then just recompile the kernel. This is not a beautilful solution, but it works. Goetz
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