This is just a heads up, but yesterday I found out that Promise is no longer supporting there embedded Promise RAID chips on motherboards. For me, that is sad to hear as I have a Promise Fastrak 100 lite RAID controlled outboard. With this in mind, I would assume that all driver support beyond RedHat 7.3 is no more. I guess I won't have to wait for the RedHat 8.0 driver now and this also means that if you want to use the Promise Driver for Fastrak lite controllers, you are stuck at RH 7.3 for good. I could be wrong, so if I am, please let me know. Gary Shadley -----Original Message----- From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joseph Tate Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:47 AM To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Stuck with Promise FastTrack There is a howto out there that tells more or less how to do that. Look at tldp.org and search for ATA-RAID or visit http://www.murty.net/ataraid/ for the latest version of the howto. I don't recommend trying to build your own kernel unless you're onsite with the servers. Instead, there's a mkinitrd command you can run to preload ataraid and the pdc modules which ship with RH kernel rpms. It's something like "mkinitrd --preload ataraid --preload pdcraid". See https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/ataraid-list/2002-September/001147. html for where this is based from. Also make sure that the fasttrak modules are removed from your modules.dep file (just edit the text file) before you run the mkinitrd. Then change /etc/fstab and lilo/grub as it tells you to in the howto at murty's. Joseph Matthias Saou wrote: >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 > > > _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
