< im sorry, this is a repost, but i would have to know if there are success stories for this situation> Hello mike, and all I am glad to hear about the success with the promise, althogh my setup may be more complicated... My wish list ide0 (onboard) NO devices ide1 (onboard) NO devices ide2 (promise) - hde: 10 gig drive - hdf: No device or a mirror of hde ide3 (promise) - hfg: No device or a mirror of hde - hdh: No device Is it a better idea, to put the mirror-drive of hde on ide2 too, or is is better, to put it on a seperate ide-header, like ide3? I know, i have to enable booting from offboard chipsets in the bios. I know, this is possible to do this under win with the hardware functionality of the promise controller. I am kinda sure, i can do this with linux using md-util or something similar in software, but the goal is to use the promise hardware to do this.... Has anybody done this before? tips, suggestions .... ? best regards, Alex On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Cleary, Mike wrote:
Right now I am usually booting the stock 2.4 kernel (in 7.1), although I have also booted the 2.2.18 kernel. I installed Lilo in the /boot partition because I use Boot Magic on my machine.
I have three hard drives on the machine plus a CD-ROM. I tried putting my Linux drive (Maxtor 20G 7200 RPM ATA 66) on one of the motherboard IDE controllers, but I had no end of problems. I think it was a problem with the motherboard BIOS (at least according to Maxtor it was), but the motherboard manufacturer has not updated their BIOS since 8/99! So that's when I decided to put it on the Promise Ultra66 card.
I boot Linux off of this controller all the time - I just added Linux to the Boot Magic configuration, and told it which drive to use. So far it hasn't been a problem.
Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cleary_Mike@emc.com x6033 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- It said 'Requires Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux...
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Stragies [mailto:roast@studcs.uni-sb.de] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 10:45 AM To: Cleary, Mike Cc: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: RE: [SLE] ultra dma 66 contollers
Hi mike, and all,
thanks alot for the verz fast reply, maz i inquire about your kernel version?
I want to use this controller for mirroring and striping, if possible with the hardware support for these operations.
Also, mike, do you install lilo in the MBR of hda? I would like the drives connected to the Promise to be the onlz drives in my system. So i was wondering, if i could easily boot of this controller...
I know, it is possible to do mirroring and striping using linux software, but doing it in hardware would be alot nicer....
Anybody?
And best regards, Alex
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Cleary, Mike wrote:
I'm using a Promise Ultra 66 PCI card for my Linux drive. It seems to work fine - Linux recognizes the drive no prob. However, I do get some funky lilo messages, but I'm not sure if they are related to the promise card or not. Here's an example:
linux:~ # lilo Warning: /dev/hde3 is not on the first disk Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Added linux * Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Added linux_2.4 Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Added suse Added windows Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Added memtest86
Anyway, it all seems to work....:)
Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cleary_Mike@emc.com x6033
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-----Original Message----- From: Robert Stragies [mailto:roast@studcs.uni-sb.de] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 10:22 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] ultra dma 66 contollers
hello all,
could somebody post experiences with ultra66 controllers available as pci cards.
I was opting for a promise fasttrack 66, but i read in the udma howto on linuxhq.com, that it was problematic to install with *recent* 2.2 kernels. As this document may be outdated, could somebody tell me (or point me to info) if this problematic situation is still the case?
any other recommendations or tips?
best regards, Alex
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