Besides the fact that I cant get it to work, why would you not use it? Known Problems, crappy hardware, unsupported hardware, etc.
I guess I just need something to back my reason for not using it.
Thanks
At 02:06 PM 8/29/2003 -0700, you wrote:
On Friday 29 August 2003 13:14, Dylon wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to install a RAID 1 setup on redhat 9.0 I am using MSI > KT3 Ultra ARU with the Promise Fastrack 133. I can set up a software > RAID but I cant get redhat to see the Promise hardware raid. So how > would I do this? I have 2 20 gig Hard Drives that boots up to the > IDE0 and IDE1 I tried the ide 3 and 4 and the Hardware showed the > RAID 1setup in BIOS using the fastrack raid utility and I installed > Redhat but it showed them as drives e and g not as a RAID disk set. > > Any advice..
Best advice possible on this system, don't use Promise for raid. Period. You'll be FAR better off using it as a straight IDE controller, and letting the Linux Kernel handle software raid.
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