Thanks Steve, that reminds of a good second question. The motherboard manufacturers list the chipset as PDC20276, yet the promise website simply lists their products as: fasttrack, supertrack, TX2.. etc etc etc. what does promise call the product that the 20276 chipset resides on? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Conway" <sconway@xxxxxxxxx> To: <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 7:31 AM Subject: RE: Promise PDC 20276, using md > To Answer your last question: > > I have received the Red Hat 8 beta drivers for Promise 100 TX2 card > (received from Promise tech support), and have successfully set up RAID-1 > with RH 8 using the HW RAID NOT software, > > Not sure if that helps, > > But anyway, > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Shaun > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:18 AM > To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Promise PDC 20276, using md > > > Hello, > > my last post was asking if anyone had any recent experience with installing > a fresh system using the redhat 8.0 drivers off the highpoint website for > the HPT374 chipset. > > I am in the position of designing a new server that has to run RAID. > (either RAID-1 or RAID-5). I am buying all new hardware from scratch for it > so I need to be sure I am minimizing any possible headache's with the > install. > > Basically I need a board with 4 IDE ports on it, and a BIOS setting that > allows me to disable the onboard RAID function without losing access to IDE3 > and IDE4. > > Originally, I was looking at the ABIT AT7 MAX, with the onboard HighPoint > HPT374 chipset. I can't get that board so I have switched to the Gigabyte > 7VAXP. > The Gigabyte board is using the Promise PDC20276 controller, which I see by > this list people have been having some difficulties with. > > My question is this: I am going to be using RedHat 8.0, but I am not going > to be utilizing the onboard BIOS for controlling the RAID. I would rather > use the kernel level md raid drivers, and use the raidtools package from > within the OS. > > I am going to be installing 2 Maxtor 80gig drives, one on IDE3 and one on > IDE4. but then in the BIOS I will set them as regular disks. > > When people are having the problems during the installation of linux, are > their problems due to the fact that they are using the onboard RAID > controller to build and maintain their array? Which then has to communicate > with the kernel to "translate" what's going on.? > > OR > since I am going to be disabling the RAID function onboard and relying on > the md drivers from the kernel, am I effectively sidestepping any problems? > (I'm thinking that just the simple fact that the drives are even plugged > into IDE3 and IDE4 there is still a possible issue with communicating with > the promise chip.. even though its not actually doing anything with the > raid.) > > list, are you guys using the promise RAID controller to build and maintain > your RAID? or using software raid via linux. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >
