On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 20:38, Jim Perrin wrote: > As of right now I only have sda, and am using the binary drivers from > Promise. My problem came about trying to add a label option to the > partition, I kept getting duplicate echos that would not allow me to mount > via label=/foo but I could mount perfectly using /dev/sda. Thanks for your > response. I have not had any experience with the open source drivers yet. > Do they yield any performance boost? If you could post a link to or about > them I would be grateful. Thanks again The open source drivers are part of the 2.4.current kernel source. Alternatively, you could look at http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/pdcraid/ This is the original page of the author of the driver. My experience with them is that they give you the option to use a stock or modified stock (RedHat) kernel, but they do not flush the IDE drives buffers on reboot/powerdown. Performance boost is not what I have tried, I just wanted a plug-and-play supported solution and stopped investigating into the performance of the drivers once I found out how to get them running and the fact that they don't flush the cache on my drives. On a whole, my personal experience is that it is wise to stay away from the promise cards on dedicated linux machines, but pay a little extra and go for 3ware. They offer true hardware raid and have decent opensource drivers in the linux kernel implemented. I run production on both Promise and 3ware and I must say that I am personally more satisfied with 3ware. > --On Sunday, August 10, 2003 19:03:29 +0200 "Homme R. Bitter" > <homme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 14:57, Jim Perrin wrote: > >> I recently purchased the Promise Fasttrack s150 TX4 because it was one > >> of the cheaper cards that boasted linux support. I'me becoming a bit > >> irritated with it though as it does not list any actual device in > >> /dev/rd/* that I can see. Has anyone succesfully set this card up with > >> raid? I can access the individual drives using /dev/sda etc, but what > >> do I use to access the raid array? Below is output from /proc in case > >> it's needed. > >> > >> Any help would be immensely welcome. > > > > You need to define the raid in the bios of the card and build it there. > > After that you should see the raid as a single scsi drive. This is, if > > you are using the binary drivers provided by Promise. If you use the > > Open source drivers you should make devices in the /dev/ataraid > > subdirectory and your raid should appear as /dev/atatraid/d0p1 etc. > > > > For more info see the various howto documents on the web. > > > > Regards, > > > > Homme > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
