I hope you realize that most IDE RAID controllers and all Promise are glorified software based RAID controllers. >I am running a Promise Fasttrak100 IDE RAID controller. You need to get a Linux driver from the Promise web site -- the Red Hat supplied drivers will not work. In case you have a >problem installing it, I found the tech support people at Promise to be very supportive. In addition, I will be happy to describe my experiences in greater detail, if it would be useful >to you. Amazing; I received the COLDEST shoulder from Promise when I called them in the 2nd and 3rd week of November about drivers and support for a Fasttrack SX4000 and RedHat 8.0 (which they still don't support!!). Staff varied between incredibly rude to clueless but at least trying to be helpful. In short, they refused to help me get the drivers to work with 8.0. I ended up going with 7.3 box and using Promise's 7.3 version of the drivers only to find that these drivers only supported a 1st release version of the 7.3 kernel. Promise also refused to compile against newer libraries and refused to give me any source to do it myself (one upper level tech went into a tirade about how the driver is their intellectual property etc..etc..). Therefore I was stuck using the initial release of the 7.3 kernel. Lack of any fault tolerance finally pushed me to return their product after the controller completely destroyed a RAID 5 array after a power failure. Linux software RAID has been proven to be faster and more reliable than any of these "hardware" solutions. Lack of true open source drivers leaves you miles behind the latest kernel. I do believe that many of these problems would be taken care of if Promise would release all their Linux drivers as true open source. Someday soon I hope, as their products do have good potential. -Justin -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
