Hi, I've got 3 identical servers that were installed with Red Hat Linux 7.3 using Promise's driver disk. The entire system is installed on a RAID-1 array of two IDE drives. The current used kernel module is FastTrak, and as far I've seen (and I've searched!), it's closed source and only available for the original Red Hat Linux kernels (not the errata updated ones), thus I'm currently stuck with 2.4.18-3. As I'm having problems with kjournald, and kernel bugs are forcing me to reboot the servers after one to two hours once they're under heavy load, I'd really like to : 1) Be able to upgrade to the latest errata kernel (2.4.18-18.7.xsmp) 2) Be able to get rid of the FastTrak kernel module Now my questions to achieve this are : 1) Can the ideraid/pdcraid modules do this? 2) Could I use them without reinstalling the entire system? I know the easiest would be to simply try, but my main concern is that I do not have any physical access to those servers, so toying around isn't an option, but installing an updated kernel, creating a correct initrd, updating /etc/fstab etc. is as long as there are chances of it working :-/ Here is how the controller is currently identified (yes, it's even using that ugly pseudo-SCSI) : scsi0 : FastTrak Vendor: Promise Model: 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev: 1.10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 >From lspci : 00:02.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 (rev 02) The board is actually an Intel SCB2 in a 1U Intel chassis IIRC. Any help or pointers are very welcome! Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) running Linux kernel 2.4.18-10acpi Load : 0.21 0.09 0.08
