> I see you folks are struggling with the same issue I had for over two > months. I do not want to discourage you, actually encourage you to keep > posting your progress. It is important that RedHat will get native > support for this in later releases. RedHat and any other major distribution. As you said these ATA RAID controllers are showing up in more and more motherboards. > The only solution at this moment is to boot with a hard drive attached > to your normal IDE channel and compile the new kernel with the ATA raid. I managed to install RedHat 7.3 from scratch on the ATA RAID with the Promise driver and then move to 2.4.20 and use Native ATARAID. RedHat 8 is, I guess, still problematic. One thing to try is to add Native ATA RAID support to the RedHat setup sources, and install to a new computer via NFS or FTP from a computer in the LAN using the modified version. > Last Friday I took a day off to focus on this issue in my lab. I > installed a total different version of Linux called FreeBSD that does > support the controller without going through all this hassle. True, it A small correction -- FreeBSD is NOT a form a Linux. It is a UNIX OS build on top BSD-UNIX. It's a very stable system with many advantages, especially when functioning as a server. I wanted to test it, and now that you say it supports Promise RAID out-of-the-box I want to do it even more. > is not as clean and does not have the simple rpm installs, but it is > stable. I have installed Apache and MySql on and backup software. You should check out the "ports collection" -- some say that when you learn how to use it it becomes as trivial as RPM. Alon, Israel.
