Rob Thanks for sharing your copy of Promise driver partial source. While it may or may not work, it is best to have the ability to directly install ataraid without going through the intermediate step of Promise raid. I made a floppy with ataraid and pdcraid modules (taken from CD #3 for kernel*BOOT rpm) and loaded the modules (insmod ./ataraid and then insmod ./pdcraid) and I can see ataraid devices properly. But I was unable to continue RH 8.0 installation because Anaconda doesnot support ataraid. When you try to play with your new box, let me know if you succeed in installing RH 8.0 either directly or through the intermediate step Thanks Murty On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Robert Montgomery wrote: > Kamil, > > I just set up a similar server using the fasttrak > driver instead of ataraid. I cant help any with the > ataraid, but if you decide to try the fasttrak driver, > keep reading. > > The RH7.3 default SMP kernel has a bug with the ext3 > filesystem, and RH recommends upgrading the kernel. I > was using the fasttrak.o driver supplied from promise, > but couldnt upgrade the kernel because the fasttrak > driver wont work. So the simplest thing to do was to > stick with the default 7.3 kernel and just downgrade > the filesystem from ext3 to ext2, thereby avoiding the > kernel bug altogether. Since doing this, the server > has been rock solid under heavy web and dns load. > > The other FastTrak option is to try and compile the > recommended kernel from source and use the Fasttrak > "partial" source code to recompile a new fasttrak > driver yourself. Promise sent me the code last week, > but I have not yet had the chance to try it yet, > however next week I am going to upgrade a server with > an SCB2 board, and will probably try this approach. > > Promise has removed the source code they sent me last > week from their website, so I'm not too sure why they > did that, but I do have a copy available on my server. > If you want to try to compile your own fasttrak > driver, check out > http://www.realmsolutions.com/fasttrak.php to get the > source. > > If you DO successfully get your SCB2 server running > smoothly with RH7.3, please give me a brief rundown of > what you did to get there. Since I'm going to be > starting from scratch on an SCB2 next week, knowledge > of any pitfalls I can avoid would be great! > > Good Luck, > Rob > > > > > > > --- "Kamil Staniucha - Ziaja Ltd." > <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > I've got trouble with my Promise Fastrak 100 (20267) > > on Intel's SCB2 > > motherboard and RH 7.3 > > I've tried to follow Murty's howto to establish > > native Rad-1 (I have to > > upgrade my kernel to at least 2.4.19 or 2.4.20) > > but after kernel compilation and restart I've go > > "VFS kernel panic : > > unable to mount root FS on 72:01" > > Could anybody help me and give an advice what else > > should be set > > (/ataraid/d0p1 instead of /dev/sda1) beside > > lilo.conf > > I've changed fstab line > > LABEL=/ / ext3 default 1 1 > > to > > /dev/ataraid/d0p1 / ext3 default 1 > > 1 > > and tried with RH 7.3 built in lilo and after > > upgrade to lilo 22.3.4 and > > still had the same "kernel panic" > > I can't go to the next step with > > boot=/dev/ataraid/d0 . > > > > Help please. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Kamil > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >
