Yes, I did that running RH 7.2 using a custom built 2.4.18 kernel. Everything came up fine and it seemed to be working until I did some test. I wanted to see what would happen when one of the two drives that were mirrored failed. When I turned one of the drives off, about 2 or 3 seconds later, there was errors on my screen and then the whole thing locked up. Also, I have heard that using ATARAID does not know when the drives are out of sync and will not rebuild automatically if one drive fails. I don't see the benefit there if a drives fails and the kernel has no idea that it has. Has anyone else seen this happen to them? Gary -----Original Message----- From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthias Saou Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:04 PM To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Stuck with Promise FastTrack Once upon a time, Gary wrote : > 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. Doesn't your controller work with the ataraid/pdcraid kernel modules? My three servers are now running happily with a kernel 2.4.18-18.7.x which is not tainted anymore! ;-) (btw, the FastTrak.o module seems to not make the kernel as tainted since it contains no license information...) 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 : 0.12 0.20 0.17 _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
